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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

wiederholen

Pronunciation / Transliteration: viːdɐˈhoːlən

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Restate/riːˈsteɪt/
verbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Ich möchte meine Hauptpunkte kurz wiederholen."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To state something again or in a different way, usually to make the meaning clearer or to emphasize a point.

    "Let me restate the main objectives of our project to ensure everyone is aligned."
  2. 2

    To express financial or factual data in a revised format, often following new regulations or corrected errors.

    "The company had to restate its earnings for the previous fiscal year."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word is a combination of the prefix re- (meaning 'again' or 'anew') and the verb state (derived from the Latin 'stare', meaning 'to stand'). It emerged in the late 16th century in English to denote the act of stating something once more, usually with greater clarity or emphasis.

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