German

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Etymology

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breit +‎ treten

Pronunciation

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Verb

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breittreten (class 5 strong, third-person singular present tritt breit, past tense trat breit, past participle breitgetreten, past subjunctive träte breit, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to go on about (a topic)
    Je mehr ein Thema in der Systempresse breitgetreten wird, desto unwichtiger ist es.
    The more a topic is covered by the mainstream media, the less important it is on average.

Conjugation

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