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German
Etymology
From Middle High German hiure, from Old High German hiuro, hiuru, from hiu (“in this”) + jāru (“year”). Compare German heute from Old High German hiu tagu ("this day").
Pronunciation
Adverb
heuer
- (Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol, otherwise dialectal) this year
- Synonym: (the general form) dieses Jahr
- Coordinate term: fert
Usage notes
- The word is never used in northern and central Germany. It may even—at least by less educated speakers—be misinterpreted as a synonym of heute (“today”). It does however occasionally mean heutigentags (“nowadays”) or heute (“nowadays”), for example:
- 1654, Salomons von Golaw Deutscher Sinn-Getichte Drey Tausend, Breslau, p. 210, nr. 71 Heutige Welt-Kunst:
Derived terms
Verb
heuer
- inflection of heuern:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative
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