versprechen.
to promise
Meaning & usage
to promise
Ich verspreche es dir.
Er hat versprochen, Kuchen mitzubringen.
to expect (something positive); to hope for
Ich verspreche mir viel davon.
to promise oneself
Er hatte sich einer Frau versprochen und heiratete dann eine andere.
to make a verbal slip; to misspeak
Entschuldigung, ich habe mich versprochen. Ich meinte „hundert“, nicht „tausend“.
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German versprechen (“to guarantee”), from Old High German firsprehhan (“to defend verbally, to warrant”), from Proto-West Germanic *frasprekan. Analyzable as ver- + sprechen. The sense “to misspeak” is a later transparent derivation (see the prefix).
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