Leute
Sentences
Das würde die Leute 🧑🤝🧑 wirklich zur Verzweiflung treiben .
That would really drive people to despair.
Wieso sind die Leute 🧑🤝🧑 so gleichgültig ?
Why are people so indifferent?
Mit der Zeit ⌚ lernt man 1️⃣ Leute 🧑🤝🧑 einzuschätzen .
Over time, you learn to assess people.
Meaning
people (several individual persons, a group of people in general, esp. of one kind or another), folk (folks), peeps (slang), guys (boys and/or girls)
Leut
alternative form of Leute
Concepts
Synonyms
Translations
Frequency
Dialects
Fribourg
lüt
Graubünden
lüt
Zürich
lüt
Graubünden
lüüt
Lucerne
lüt
Appenzell Innerrhoden
lüt
Zürich
lüüt
Basel-Landschaft
lüüt
Basel-Landschaft
lyt
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlɔʏ̯tə/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German liute, from Old High German liuti, also liudi, from Proto-West Germanic *liud(i), from Proto-Germanic *liudīz (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“man, people”). Compare Dutch lieden, luden, luiden, Old Norse lýðir (“people”) (whence Icelandic lýður), Old Saxon liudi, Old English lēode (“people”), English lede (“people”), Gothic *𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌸𐍃 (*liuþs), Polish ludzie, Serbo-Croatian ljȗdi, Slovene ljudjẹ̑, Bulgarian люде (ljude), Russian люди (ljudi). More at leod and Proto-Slavic *ľudьje.
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