wann

From Old High German wanne, from Proto-Germanic *hwannē. Cognate with English when.

• IPA^(key): /van/

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• Rhymes: -an

wann

1. (interrogative, standard) when

   Wann kommt er?

   When will he arrive?

   Ich weiß nicht, wann er kommt.

   I don’t know when he’ll arrive.

2. (indefinite, colloquial) sometime

   Das sollten wir mal wann besprechen, wenn alle da sind.

   We should discuss this sometime that everybody’s present.

• (sometime): irgendwann

• dann und wann
• wann anders

wann

1. (archaic or dialectal) when; if

• wann immer (standard)

• wenn

From Middle Low German wan, from Old Saxon hwan (“when”), from Proto-Germanic *hwan (“when”). Related to wannehr and wenn, Dutch wanneer and wen, High German wann and wenn, English when.

• IPA^(key): /ʋɑn/, /ʋan/
• IPA^(key): /wanː/ (conservative Eastalbian)

wann

1. when (wannehr is sometimes used with this meaning as well)

   Ik weet nich, wann he kamen deit.

   I don't know when he'll come.

From Old High German wanne, from Proto-Germanic *hwannē.

• IPA^(key): /vɑn/
• Rhymes: -ɑn
• Homophone: Wann

wann

1. if
   • Luxembourgish translation of Matthew 4:6:

     Hie sot zu him: "Wann s du dem Herrgott säi Jong bass, da gehei dech hei erof! Et steet nämlech geschriwwen: Wéinst denger gëtt hien sengen Engelen den Uerder, an si droen dech op den Hänn, fir datt s du dir de Fouss net un engem Stee stéiss."

     He said to him: "If you are the Son of God, then throw yourself down! For it is written: He will give his angels charge concerning you, and they will bear you in their hands, so that you do not strike your foot on a stone."

2. when
3. as soon as, when

• (as soon as): esoubal

• wan, ƿann, wonn, ƿan, ƿonn

• IPA^(key): /wɑnn/

wann

1. dark
   • Beowulf, ll. 702-3:

     Com on wanre niht / scriðan sceadugenga.

     The shadow-walker came slithering from the dark night.

• Middle English: wanne, wan
  • English: wan

Inflected forms.

wann

1. first-person singular preterite of winnan
2. third-person singular preterite of winnan

From Old High German wanne, from Proto-Germanic *hwannē. Compare German wann, English when.

wann

1. (interrogatory) when
2. (relative) when

Compare German wenn.

wann

1. when
2. if