- wähnen
- lit.I v/t fancy, imagine; (annehmen) assume, think; jemanden in Sicherheit etc. wähnen (mistakenly) imagine that s.o. is safe etc.; ich wähnte ihn auf Reisen / in Rom I thought he was on a trip / in Rome, I was under the impression that he was on a trip / in RomeII v/refl: sich unbeobachtet / im Recht etc. wähnen think (oder imagine) o.s. to be unobserved / right* * *to daydream; to fancy; to delude; to dream* * *wäh|nen ['vɛːnən] (geh)1. vtto imagine (wrongly), to believe (wrongly)
wir wähnten ihn glücklich — we (wrongly) imagined or believed him (to be) happy
2. vrsich sicher/von allen verlassen wä́hnen — to imagine or believe oneself (to be) safe/abandoned by all
* * *wäh·nen[ˈvɛ:nən]I. vt (geh: irrigerweise annehmen) to believe [wrongly], to labour [or AM -or] under the delusion that form▪ jdn irgendwo \wähnen to think sb is somewhere elseich wähnte dich auf hoher See I imagined you to be on the high seas▪ jdn etw \wähnen to imagine sb to be sther wähnte sie längst tot he [wrongly] believed her to be long since deadII. vr (geh)▪ sich akk etw \wähnen to consider oneself to be sthsich akk verloren \wähnen to believe oneself to be lost* * *transitives Verb (geh.) think [mistakenly]; imaginejemanden in Sicherheit od. sicher wähnen — imagine or think somebody is safe
* * *wähnen literA. v/t fancy, imagine; (annehmen) assume, think;jemanden in Sicherheit etcwähnen (mistakenly) imagine that sb is safe etc;ich wähnte ihn auf Reisen/in Rom I thought he was on a trip/in Rome, I was under the impression that he was on a trip/in RomeB. v/r:sich unbeobachtet/im Recht etcwähnen think (oder imagine) o.s. to be unobserved/right* * *transitives Verb (geh.) think [mistakenly]; imaginejemanden in Sicherheit od. sicher wähnen — imagine or think somebody is safe
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