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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from German überhaupt.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]überhaupt
- at all; anyway; in the first place
- Hoe is het heelal überhaupt ontstaan?
- How did the universe originate in the first place?
- Weet je überhaupt wel wat dat betekent, of praat je gewoon uit je nek?
- Do you know what that means at all, or are you just making things up as you go along?
Synonyms
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German überhoubet, equivalent to über- + Haupt.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]überhaupt
- overall, in general
- 1812, the Brothers Grimm, Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, Berlin, die Realschulbuchhandlung, page VIII:
- Leicht wird man übrigens bemerken, daß sie nur da gehaftet, wo überhaupt eine regere Empfänglichkeit für Poesie oder eine noch nicht von den Verkehrtheiten des Lebens ausgelöschte Phantasie gewesen.
- One will easily notice besides, that it has only held on, where overall there has been an active receptiveness for poetry or a phantasy still not extinguished by the vicissitudes of life.
- 1812, the Brothers Grimm, Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, Berlin, die Realschulbuchhandlung, page VIII:
- at all; anyway
- Hört ihr mir überhaupt zu?
- Are you listening to me at all?
- actually
- even
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- überhaupt erst (in the first place)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “überhaupt” in Duden online
- “überhaupt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “überhaupt” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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