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wann

adv · /van/ ·
Etymology

From Middle High German wanne, Old High German wanne, from Proto-West Germanic *hwannā, *hwan, from Proto-Germanic *hwan. Cognate with English when.

Translation

  1. when interrogative, standard

    Wann kommt er?

    When will he arrive?

    Ich weiß nicht, wann er kommt.

    I don’t know when he’ll arrive.

  2. sometime colloquial, indefinite

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

    We should discuss this sometime that everybody’s present.

wann

conj · /van/ ·
Etymology

From Middle High German wanne, Old High German wanne, from Proto-West Germanic *hwannā, *hwan, from Proto-Germanic *hwan. Cognate with English when.

Translation

  1. when; if archaic, dialectal