fragwürdig
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Etymology edit
From fragen (“to ask”) + -würdig (“-worthy”), commonly associated with August Wilhelm Schlegel's translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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fragwürdig (strong nominative masculine singular fragwürdiger, comparative fragwürdiger, superlative am fragwürdigsten)
- questionable (inviting doubt or inquiry)
- 1798, August Wilhelm Schlegel, transl., Hamlet[1], translation of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, [Act I, scene iv]:
- Du kommst in so fragwürdiger Gestalt, / Ich rede doch mit dir.
- Thou comest in such a questionable shape / That I will speak to thee.
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- “fragwürdig” in Duden online
- “fragwürdig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache