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German
Etymology
Superseded etwan in the 19th century.
Pronunciation
Adverb
etwa
- approximately
- Synonym: in etwa
- for instance
- Synonyms: beispielsweise, zum Beispiel
2022 October 28, “Twitter-Übernahme von Musk: Die Rechten feiern und fordern Trump zurück”, in Der Spiegel, →ISSN:Etwa AfD-Politikerin Beatrix von Storch twitterte: »Das linke woke Paralleluniversum wackelt.«- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- by any chance
- (modal) really (expresses the expectation of a negative answer)
Willst du etwa schon gehen?- Do you really want to leave so soon?
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See also
Further reading
- “etwa” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Nzadi
Noun
etwâ (plural atwâ)
- bag
Noun
etwâ (plural etwâ)
- banana cluster
Further reading
- Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi : a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN