grasp

Sätze
An user
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it
  was   just   that   he
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  couldn't   grasp   what   it
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  meant .

Es war nur so, dass er nicht verstehen konnte, was es bedeutete.

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Frequenz

C1
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ɡɹɑːsp/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

From Middle English graspen, grapsen, craspen (“to grope; feel around”), from Old English *grǣpsian, from Proto-West Germanic *graipisōn, from Proto-Germanic *graipisōną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to take, seize, rake”), the same ultimate source as grab. Cognate with German Low German grapsen (“to grab; grasp”), German grapsen and grapschen, Saterland Frisian Grapse (“double handful”), Old English grāpian ("to touch, feel, grasp"; > Modern English grope). Compare also Swedish krafsa (“to scatch; scabble”), Norwegian krafse (“to scramble”).

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