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- Check "antwort" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "antwort" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
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just wanted to check…like is this the right word for the solution to a question?
So say a question in a maths workbook is posed… say 400 + 501
And i write down what i think it is but I need to look up in the back of the book what the solution is.
It states 901
Is that an Antwort? In english you could say this is the answer, but you could also say solution (more formal)
I ask because I used the word Antwort in my course today in this context and someone (also a learner ) was confused and was like “meinst du die Lösung?” and I wondered if i was using the word incorrectly.
Yes, for me “Antwort” works fine but you could also use “Lösung”. Might be highly contextual and depending on the phrasing.
Would you be able to give an example of where it might sound weird to use Antwort instead of Lösung (in relation to the sense i am talking about) ?
I was curious to see if it would be weird to say “Das ist ein Rätsel ohne Antwort”
When i look online it Lösung seems to be more common with Rätsel so i am guessing thats more idiomatic, but then there are some examples on Linguee with Rätsel and Antwort e.g.
Die Antwort für das unten aufgeführte Rätsel geben wir mit
Absicht nicht an, da ihr dieses vielleicht selbst in einer Hinweis-Schriftrolle erhaltet.
Yeah, I think “Lösung” is the more likely first association with “Rätsel” but there’s no “idiomatic law” that says “Antwort” doesn’t work.
If we’re talking a multipart riddle or task then “die Lösung” can cover all of the answers but “Antwort” can’t. But that’s just me, other native speakers might have different idiosyncracies.
Thats really interesting. Danke!