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weitergeben — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • communicate verb To share information or ideas with someone, whether by speaking, writing, or gesture.
  • impart verb To pass on knowledge, advice, or a quality to someone.
  • pass verb To move from one place, position, or state to another.
  • relay verb To pass on information received from one person or source to another.
  • ship noun A large vessel built to carry people or cargo across water.

Senses

weitergeben is used for these senses in English:

  • communicate (transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell. [from 16th c.]
  • impart (transitive) To give a part or to share.
  • impart (transitive) To obtain a share of; to partake of.
  • pass (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
  • pass (transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
  • pass on (transitive) To convey or communicate.
  • ship (ditransitive, colloquial) To pass (from one person to another).

communicate — full definition

  1. verb To share information or ideas with someone, whether by speaking, writing, or gesture.
  2. verb To pass something, such as a disease or feeling, from one person or thing to another.

impart — full definition

  1. verb To pass on knowledge, advice, or a quality to someone.
  2. verb To make something known.

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