geweten
Meaning
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conscience
Concepts
conscience
consciousness
lucidity
realization
moral sense
known
awareness
inner voice
inwit
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ge‧we‧ten
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɣəˈʋeː.tə(n)/
Etymology
16th century, calque of German Gewissen, in part through Middle Low German gewēten. Further from Middle High German gewizzen, from Old High German gewizzanī, a calque of Latin conscientia, itself a calque of Ancient Greek συνείδησις (suneídēsis). Equivalent to ge- + weten (“to know”).
New
weten
- (transitive) to know (knowledge), to be aware of something
- (transitive) to remember
- (auxiliary) to be able to, to manage to (literally, "to know how to/to know of a way to")
New
wijten
to blame
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