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nennen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  • dub verb To give something a name or nickname.
  • mention verb To refer to or speak about something briefly, without going into detail.
  • name noun A word or phrase used to identify a specific person, place, or thing.
  • state noun The particular condition someone or something is in at a given time.

Senses

nennen is used for these senses in English:

  • be called To have a specific name.
  • call To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
  • dub (transitive, now, informal) To name, to entitle, to call. [from the later 16th c.]
  • mention To make a short reference to something.
  • name (transitive) To mention, specify.
  • state (transitive) To make known.

call — full definition

  1. verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  2. verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
  3. verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
  4. verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
  5. noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.

dub — full definition

  1. verb To give something a name or nickname.
  2. verb To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a translated or new one.
  3. noun A remix of a song, especially in reggae, with vocals stripped out and effects added.

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