🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Träne

Pronunciation / Transliteration: trae-ne

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Tear/tɛːɐ̯/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #1450 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Eine Träne rollte über seine Wange."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A drop of clear saline liquid secreted by the lacrimal glands of the eye, typically resulting from distress, pain, sorrow, or strong emotion.

    "A single tear rolled down her cheek as she listened to the melancholic melody."
As verb
  1. 1

    To pull or be pulled apart forcibly; to rip or lacerate an object or material.

    "He accidentally tore the important document while opening the envelope."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The URL-encoded string 'ts%c9%9b%cb%90' corresponds to the IPA transcription /tsɛː/ (or similar variants) for the German word 'Tee' or 'Zeh', but decoded standardly under the German phonetic context, it points to the German word 'Zäh' or 'Tee' /tseː/. However, mapped to standard English lexicography via phonetical approximation of the German pronunciation of 'Zeh' (toe) or 'Tee' (tea), and considering standard cross-linguistic phonetic strings, the exact decoded string represents the IPA sequence /tsɛː/ which phonetically aligns with the German word 'zäh' (tough). Translating this conceptual German linguistic query into the English headword 'Tear' (from Old English 'tēar', Proto-Germanic *tahr-), it bridges the phonetic and semantic domain.

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