allerhand
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Univerbation of Middle High German aller hande.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]allerhand (indeclinable)
- all sorts of
- Das ist ja allerhand! ― That's quite something!
- 1787, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther [The Sorrows of Young Werther][1], volume 1:
- Sie sind vertraut, erzählen mir allerhand, und besonders ergetze ich mich an ihren Leidenschaften und simpeln Ausbrüchen des Begehrens, wenn mehr Kinder aus dem Dorfe sich versammeln.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Orgelpfeifen, in: Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun. Verlag, page 10:
- Das Schnitzwerk seines Gesimses stellte kleine, pausbäckige Engelchen dar, die zwischen allerhand Schnörkeln, wie in einem Irrgarten gefangen saßen.
- The carving of its moulding depicted small, chubby-faced little angels, which sat between all sorts of embellishments, like trapped in a maze.
Declension
[edit]Indeclinable.
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