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Heft

Meaning

  1. (neuter, strong) notebook, writing booklet, cahier, composition book (book in which notes or memoranda are written)
  2. (neuter, strong) notepad, writing pad (pad of paper on which one jots down notes)
  3. (neuter, strong) exercise book (booklet for students, containing problems and exercises, or blank pages for writing answers)
  4. (neuter, strong) number, issue (single edition of a periodical publication)
  5. (neuter, strong) magazine (non-academic periodical publication)
  6. (neuter, strong) comic (magazine that uses sequences of drawings to tell a story or series of stories)

Frequency

C2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

hefti

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

heft

Zürich

Zürich

heft

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/hɛft/
Etymology

In summary

18th-century backformation from heften (“to fasten”), from *haftijaną (“to bind, secure”).

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