nachschlagen
German
Etymology
nach- + schlagen (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What is the sense development? How does "to hit after" turn into "to look up, to find out"?”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnaːxˌʃlaːɡŋ̩/, /ˈnaːxˌʃlaːɡən/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: nach‧schla‧gen
Verb
nachschlagen (class 6 strong, third-person singular present schlägt nach, past tense schlug nach, past participle nachgeschlagen, past subjunctive schlüge nach, auxiliary haben)
- to look up
- (colloquial, with dative) to take after (a relative)
Conjugation
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “nachschlagen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “nachschlagen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “nachschlagen” in Duden online
- “nachschlagen” in OpenThesaurus.de
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