Get to know Umlauted better with 7 real example sentences, the meaning.
Umlauted meaning
simple past and past participle of umlaut
Using Umlauted
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of umlaut
- In the example corpus, umlauted often appears in combinations such as: umlauted to, umlauted vowels.
Context around Umlauted
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Umlauted
- In this selection, "umlauted" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, german, retroactively, process, vowels, letters and form stand out and add context to how "umlauted" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include grammatical process umlauted vowels often and is an umlauted form of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "umlauted" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with umlauted
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Estonian "dotted vowels" ä, ö, ü are similar to German, but these are also distinct letters, not like German umlauted letters. (21 words)
For example, the diphthong ai in aigu, þair and waita was not retroactively umlauted to ei as in e.g. Old Icelandic eigu, þeir and veita. (26 words)
At some point prior to i-mutation, the form *duhtriz was modified to *dohtriz by analogy with the singular form, which then allowed it to be umlauted to a form that resulted in dehter. (34 words)
Parallel umlauts in some modern Germanic languages German orthography seeAlso Ä, Ö, Ü on a German computer keyboard New and old notation of umlauted vowels German orthography is generally consistent in its representation of i-umlaut. (36 words)
Für "for" is a special case; it is an umlauted form of vor "before", but other historical developments changed the expected ö into ü. In this case, the ü marks a genuine but irregular umlaut. (35 words)
Morphological effects Although umlaut was not a grammatical process, umlauted vowels often serve to distinguish grammatical forms (and thus show similarities to ablaut when viewed synchronically), as can be seen in the English word man. (35 words)
Example sentences (7)
At some point prior to i-mutation, the form *duhtriz was modified to *dohtriz by analogy with the singular form, which then allowed it to be umlauted to a form that resulted in dehter.
Estonian "dotted vowels" ä, ö, ü are similar to German, but these are also distinct letters, not like German umlauted letters.
For example, the diphthong ai in aigu, þair and waita was not retroactively umlauted to ei as in e.g. Old Icelandic eigu, þeir and veita.
Für "for" is a special case; it is an umlauted form of vor "before", but other historical developments changed the expected ö into ü. In this case, the ü marks a genuine but irregular umlaut.
Morphological effects Although umlaut was not a grammatical process, umlauted vowels often serve to distinguish grammatical forms (and thus show similarities to ablaut when viewed synchronically), as can be seen in the English word man.
Only in foreign words may Galician use other diacritics such as ç (common during the Middle Ages), ê, or à. * German uses the three umlauted characters ä, ö and ü. These diacritics indicate vowel changes.
Parallel umlauts in some modern Germanic languages German orthography seeAlso Ä, Ö, Ü on a German computer keyboard New and old notation of umlauted vowels German orthography is generally consistent in its representation of i-umlaut.
Common combinations with umlauted
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- umlauted to 2×
- umlauted vowels 2×