gewohnt

See also: gewöhnt

GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Compare English wont.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ɡəˈvoːnt]
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  • Hyphenation: ge‧wohnt

ParticipleEdit

gewohnt

  1. past participle of wohnen

AdjectiveEdit

gewohnt (strong nominative masculine singular gewohnter, not comparable)

  1. usual, customary
  2. familiar, accustomed
  3. wont

Usage notesEdit

In spoken language sometimes confused with the participle gewöhnt, from gewöhnen (to accustom oneself to):

Ein solch hartes Leben war ich vorher nicht gewohnt gewesen.
I wasn't used to such a hard life.
•Nur langsam hatte ich mich an das harte Leben gewöhnt.
Only slowly I got used to / adapted to the hard life.

Gewöhnen describes the process of accustoming oneself to something, gewohnt sein emphasizes the fact that one is already familiar with something, or doing something regularly, without necessarily appreciating it.[1]

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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^
    2017 February 3 (last accessed), Bastian Sick, “gewöhnt/gewohnt”, in Spiegel Zwiebelfisch-Abc[1]: