mal
Meaning
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- times (indicating multiplication of two numbers)
- (alt-of,alternative,informal) Alternative form of einmal (“sometime, ever, once”), may serve to introduce a new information.
- (informal) Softening a sentence, thus making a request or command more polite. By extension, indicating a command or request.
Frequency
Dialects
Zürich
mal
Appenzell Ausserrhoden
mol
Appenzell Innerrhoden
mal
Zürich
amel
Zürich
emal
Appenzell Innerrhoden
mau
Graubünden
mol
Graubünden
amol
Zürich
mall
Aargau
mol
Zürich
mol
Appenzell Ausserrhoden
mal
Basel-Landschaft
e mol
Basel-Landschaft
mol
Basel-Stadt
mol
Fribourg
amaù
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
/maːl/
Etymology
From the noun Mal (“time”). Partly shortened from einmal, which is also derived from the noun.
New
malen
- (intransitive,weak) to paint (do paintwork)
- (intransitive,transitive,weak) to paint (create a painting)
- (broadly,weak) to draw, depict (with a pencil, computer program, etc.)
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Sentences
Eure Großeltern könnten euch die Geschichte noch mal erzählen .
Your grandparents could tell you the story again.
