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ahnen.

to suspect, guess

5 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈʔaːnən/
  1. to suspect, guess

    transitive · weak
    Sag ihr die Wahrheit, da sie bereits etwas ahnt.
Where this word comes from

From Middle High German anen, from Old High German *anōn, from Proto-West Germanic *anōn, from *ana (“on”, preposition), from Proto-Germanic *an (“on”). Cognate with Middle Low German ānen (whence German Low German ahnen (“to suspect, guess”)), dialectal Dutch anen (“to conjecture, tell, calculate”), Saterland Frisian oanje (“to suspect, guess”).

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