affect

Bedeutung

Verb

1. To influence or alter.
2. To move to emotion.
3. Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
4. To dispose or incline.
5. To tend to by affinity or disposition.
6. To assign; to appoint.
7. To burden (property) with a fixed charge or payment, or other condition or restriction.

Noun

1. A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.
2. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
3. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.

Mit Bindestrich als

af‧fect

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/əˈfɛkt/

Etymologie

From Middle English affecten, from Latin affectāre, from Latin affectus, the participle stem of Latin afficere (“to act upon, influence, affect, attack with disease”), from ad- + facere (“to make, do”).

Sätze

If he makes a buying mistake , it doesn't affect him much .

Wenn er einen Kauffehler macht, betrifft es nicht viel.