wild

Sentences
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Zahlreiche   Zeitungen   wurden   von   dem   Unterdruck   mitgerissen   und   flogen   wild   umher .

Numerous newspapers were carried away by the negative pressure and flew around wildly.

Meaning

  1. wild (of animals, etc.)
  2. (informal) wild, unrestrained, raucous (of behavior, parties, etc.)
  3. (informal) crazy, hard to believe (of stories, situations, etc.)
  4. (obsolete) strange

Frequency

B1
Dialects

Zürich

Zürich

wild

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/vɪlt/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Middle High German wilde, from Old High German wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþī, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

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