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berichten — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • narrate verb To tell a story or describe a sequence of events, in speech or writing.
  • recount verb To tell a story or describe events in detail.
  • report verb To give an account of an event or pass on information that has been observed or heard.

Senses

berichten is used for these senses in English:

  • narrate To give an account.
  • recount To tell; narrate; to relate in detail.
  • report (formal, transitive) To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. [from 15th c.]
  • report (ambitransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter. [from 19th c.]
  • report (intransitive) To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).

recount — full definition

  1. verb To tell a story or describe events in detail.
  2. noun A repeat count, especially of votes in a close election.

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