quitt
See also: Quitt
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German quī̆t (“released, unencumbered, free”); derived from Latin quietare. Cognate with Dutch kwijt, English quit, French quitte.[1]
Pronunciation edit
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Adjective edit
quitt (indeclinable, predicative only)
- quits, even
- Wenn du mir die Hälfte zurückzahlst, sind wir quitt.
- If you pay me back one half, we're even.
- (regional) rid of something, having lost something
- Synonym: los
- Ich hab so viel Holz im Schuppen, ich weiß gar nicht, wie ich das quitt werden soll.
- I have so much wood in my shed, I don't even know how to get rid of it.
Declension edit
Indeclinable, predicative-only.
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “quitt”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Further reading edit
- “quitt” in Duden online