Agnon is an English word starting with the letter A. With 8 example sentences you'll see exactly how it works in context.
Agnon in a sentence
Context around Agnon
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Agnon
- In this selection, "agnon" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, name, language, buczacz, writes, derived and house stand out and add context to how "agnon" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2005 the agnon house association and about buczacz agnon s hometown. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "agnon" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with agnon
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Agnon writes about Jewish life, but with his own unique perspective and special touch. (14 words)
In 2005, the Agnon House Association in Jerusalem renovated the building, which reopened in January 2009. (16 words)
Language Agnon's writing often used words and phrases that differed from what would become established modern Hebrew. (18 words)
Written by chief rabbis Herzog and Uziel, together with some suggestions from author and Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, it was adopted by many communities in Israel and abroad. (29 words)
The mostly assimilated, secular German Jews, Buber and Franz Rosenzweig among them, considered Agnon to be a legitimate relic, being a religious man, familiar with Jewish scripture. (27 words)
He used the pen name "Agnon," derived from the title of the story, which he adopted as his official surname in 1924. (22 words)
Example sentences (8)
Written by chief rabbis Herzog and Uziel, together with some suggestions from author and Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, it was adopted by many communities in Israel and abroad.
Agnon writes about Jewish life, but with his own unique perspective and special touch.
A play based on Agnon's letters to his wife, "Esterlein Yakirati", was performed at the Khan Theater in Jerusalem.
He used the pen name "Agnon," derived from the title of the story, which he adopted as his official surname in 1924.
In 2005, the Agnon House Association in Jerusalem renovated the building, which reopened in January 2009.
Language Agnon's writing often used words and phrases that differed from what would become established modern Hebrew.
Posthumous publications * Ir Umeloah ("A City and the Fullness Thereof") (1973), a collection of stories and legends about Buczacz, Agnon's hometown.
The mostly assimilated, secular German Jews, Buber and Franz Rosenzweig among them, considered Agnon to be a legitimate relic, being a religious man, familiar with Jewish scripture.