Masculine
Grund
Meaning
- (masculine, strong) ground, land (usually as someone's property)
- (masculine, strong) bottom (of a container or a body of water)
- (figuratively, masculine, strong) reason; motive, cause
Concepts
logical reasoning
Grund
way of doing
very bottom
first meaning
first consideration
elementary knowledge of
grounding in
first coat of plastering
solid earth
devil possession
natural ground
Synonyms
Auflagefläche
Ladefläche
Vernunftgemäßheit
Leitgedanke
Warum
unterer Teil
eine Bedeutung
Initialzündung
innerhalb eines Grundstückes
Antezedens
Ursprung und Kausalität
Ursprung einer Angelegenheit
Logik einer Angelegenheit
Grund und Boden
im Hintergrund stehen
der tiefere Sinn
Antezedenz
gewachsener-
Frequency
Dialects
Zürich
grund
Fribourg
grùnd
Graubünden
grund
Lucerne
grond
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡʁʊnt/
Etymology
From Middle High German grunt, from Old High German grunt, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰr̥mtu-. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond, English ground. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian grundë (“brittle earth”) and gryej (“to erode, crumble”).
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Sentences
Ursprünglicher Grund der Durchsuchung war der Verdacht des Betrugs und von Schwarzarbeit .
The original reason for the search was the suspicion of fraud and undeclared work.