German edit

Etymology edit

Superseded etwan in the 19th century.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛtva/
  • (file)

Adverb edit

etwa

  1. approximately
    Synonym: in etwa
  2. for instance
    Synonyms: beispielsweise, zum Beispiel
    • 2022 October 28, “Twitter-Übernahme von Musk: Die Rechten feiern und fordern Trump zurück”, in Der Spiegel[1], →ISSN:
      Etwa AfD-Politikerin Beatrix von Storch twitterte: »Das linke woke Paralleluniversum wackelt.«
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. by any chance
  4. (modal) really (expresses the expectation of a negative answer)
    Willst du etwa schon gehen?
    Do you really want to leave so soon?

Related terms edit

See also edit

Further reading edit

  • etwa” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Nzadi edit

Noun edit

etwâ (plural atwâ)

  1. bag

Noun edit

etwâ (plural etwâ)

  1. banana cluster

Further reading edit

  • Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN