wegwerfen

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German

Etymology

weg- +‎ werfen

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛkˌvɛɐ̯fn̩/
  • Hyphenation: weg‧wer‧fen
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Verb

wegwerfen (class 3 strong, third-person singular present wirft weg, past tense warf weg, past participle weggeworfen, past subjunctive würfe weg, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to throw away, to discard
    • 1915 October, Franz Kafka, “Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis]”, in Die Weißen Blätter , volume 2, number 10, Verlag der Weißen Bücher, page 1218:
      Aus diesem Grunde waren viele Dinge überflüssig geworden, die zwar nicht verkäuflich waren, die man aber auch nicht wegwerfen wollte.
      For this reason many things had become dispensable that, although they were not saleable, one also did not want to throw away.

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Further reading

  • wegwerfen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • wegwerfen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • wegwerfen” in Duden online
  • wegwerfen” in OpenThesaurus.de