Zeit
Meaning
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- (feminine) time (as a concept)
- (feminine) time of day (clipping of Uhrzeit.)
- (feminine) period, era (time in the past)
- (feminine) stint (e.g. in the army)
- (feminine) tense
Concepts
spirit of the age
time of the year
grammatical tense
suitable time
date and time
counter for generations
appointed time
Synonyms
Zeitform
Zeitdauer
Zeitabstand
Tage und Monate
Zeitdifferenz
Torschluss
Zeittendenz
Zeitströmung
Zeitstimmung
Tag und Stunde
Zeitintervall
Hauptgeschäftszeit
Menschenalter
Zeitläufe
freie Zeit
Spielunterbrechung
Zwischenpause
günstige Gelegenheit
Hauptzeit
Zeitumstände
vereinbarte Zeit
festgesetzter Zeitpunkt
Frequency
Dialects
Zürich
ziit
Lucerne
ziit
Zürich
zit
Graubünden
ziit
Fribourg
zyt
Appenzell Innerrhoden
zit
Basel-Landschaft
zyt
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Pronounced as (IPA)
[t͡saɪ̯t]
Etymology
From Middle High German zīt, from Old High German zīt, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis (“time, period”), from *deh₂y- (“divide”). Cognate with Low German Tiet, Tied, Dutch tijd, English tide, Danish tid, Norwegian tid, Swedish tid. Also cognate, more distantly, with English time.
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Sentences
Die Zeit ⌚ ist abgelaufen .
The time has expired.
Mit der Zeit ⌚ lernt man 1️⃣ Leute 🧑🤝🧑 einzuschätzen .
Over time, you learn to assess people.
Der Versuch scheiterte allerdings binnen kurzer Zeit ⌚ .
However, the attempt failed within a short time.
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