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Noun
gegen
- teacher
References
- 欧阳觉亚 (1985) “gegen”, in 珞巴族語言简志:崩尼-博嘎尔语, Beijing: 民族出版社, →OCLC, page 101
German
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German gegen, from Old High German gagan, from Proto-West Germanic *gagin, from Proto-Germanic *gagin. Cognate with Dutch tegen, English against, Icelandic gegn.
Pronunciation
Preposition
gegen
- against
- Synonym: wider
Die Erklärung der Vereinten Nationen über die Beseitigung der Gewalt gegen Frauen.- The United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women.
- toward (i.e. directed to someone/something)
- toward (i.e. in the direction of)
- approximately, around
- in exchange for
- facing
- compare to
- (medicine) for
Usage notes
- Like its Middle High German predecessor, gegen was formerly also used with the dative, especially by Upper German writers. Compare entgegen, which still takes dative.
Inflection
Pronominal adverbs of gegen
Further reading
- “gegen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Middle High German
Etymology
Inherited from Old High German gagan, gagen, gegin.
Preposition
gegen (+ dative, sometimes + accusative)
- against
Descendants