Sentences with German verb widersprechen ⟨Statal Passive⟩

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Present

  • Das widerspricht dem Vertrag. 
    English That's against the contract.
  • Ich widerspreche dir ungern. 
    English I hate to contradict you.
  • Du widersprichst dir selbst. 
    English You're contradicting yourself.
  • Ihr widersprecht euch selbst. 
    English You're contradicting yourselves.
  • Tom wird böse, wenn man ihm widerspricht . 
    English Tom gets angry if he's contradicted.
  • Energisch hingegen widerspricht die Archäologin Historikern, die der altdeutschen Reichstagsstätte Worms eine burgundische Geschichte andichten. 
    English The archaeologist energetically contradicts historians who attribute a Burgundian history to the old German Reichstag site in Worms.

Imperfect

  • Er widersprach sich. 
    English He contradicted himself.
  • Sie widersprachen Darwins Evolutionstheorie. 
    English They opposed Darwin's theory of evolution.
  • Du widersprachst dem Lehrer. 
    English You contradicted the teacher.
  • Sie widersprachen seinen Ansichten heftig. 
    English They vehemently contradicted his views.

Present Subj.

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Imperf. Subj.

  • Nie in meinem Leben, und wenn das Schicksal noch so sehr drängte, werde ich etwas tun, das meinen inneren Forderungen, sei es auch noch so leise, widerspräche . 
    English Never in my life, and if fate pressed so hard, I will do nothing that contradicts my inner demands, even if it is so quiet.

Imperative

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Infinitive

  • Da wage ich zu widersprechen . 
    English I dare to disagree.
  • Du erdreistest dich, mir zu widersprechen ? 
    English Do you dare to contradict me?

Participle

  • Er wird wütend, wenn ihm widersprochen wird. 
    English He gets angry if he's contradicted.

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Indicative

Examples sentences for realis mood Statal Passive for widersprechen


  • Er widersprach sich. 
    English He contradicted himself.
  • Das widerspricht dem Vertrag. 
    English That's against the contract.
  • Ich widerspreche dir ungern. 
    English I hate to contradict you.
  • Sie widersprachen Darwins Evolutionstheorie. 
    English They opposed Darwin's theory of evolution.
  • Du widersprachst dem Lehrer. 
    English You contradicted the teacher.
  • Du widersprichst dir selbst. 
    English You're contradicting yourself.
  • Ihr widersprecht euch selbst. 
    English You're contradicting yourselves.
  • Sie widersprachen seinen Ansichten heftig. 
    English They vehemently contradicted his views.
  • Euthanasie und hippokratischer Eid widersprechen einander. 
    English Euthanasia and the Hippocratic oath contradict each other.
  • Tom wird böse, wenn man ihm widerspricht . 
    English Tom gets angry if he's contradicted.
  • Energisch hingegen widerspricht die Archäologin Historikern, die der altdeutschen Reichstagsstätte Worms eine burgundische Geschichte andichten. 
    English The archaeologist energetically contradicts historians who attribute a Burgundian history to the old German Reichstag site in Worms.

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Subjunctive

Usage for conjunctive mood Statal Passive for widersprechen


  • Nie in meinem Leben, und wenn das Schicksal noch so sehr drängte, werde ich etwas tun, das meinen inneren Forderungen, sei es auch noch so leise, widerspräche . 
    English Never in my life, and if fate pressed so hard, I will do nothing that contradicts my inner demands, even if it is so quiet.

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Conditional (würde)

Conditional (würde)

Imperative

Sentences for imperative Statal Passive for widersprechen

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Translations

Translation of German widersprechen


German widersprechen
English contradict, disagree, controvert, object, oppugn, answer back, be contradictory, be contrary (to)
Russian противоречить, возражать, возразить, перечить, прекословить, противоречить себе, опровергать
Spanish contradecir, contradecirse, contrariar, desmentir, discutir, llevar la contraria, objetar, oponerse
French contredire, démentir, contester, contrarier, contrer, désavouer, heurter, raisonner
Turkish karşı çıkmak, itiraz etmek, aykırı olmak, karşı gelmek, tutmamak, uymamak, reddetmek, çelişmek
Portuguese contradizer, contestar, contrariar, contradizer-se, contrariar-se, opor-se a, opor-se
Italian contraddire, contraddirsi, contrariare, contrastare, disdirsi, opporsi, rimbeccare, opporre
Romanian contrazice, se opune, răspunde
Hungarian ellentmond, ellenkezik, ellentmondani
Polish zaprzeczać, przeczyć, sprzeciwiać się, zaprzeczyć, przeciwstawiać się
Greek αντιλέγω, αντιφάσκω, αντιβαίνω, αντιτίθεμαι, φέρνω αντίρρηση
Dutch tegenspreken, bezwaar maken tegen, indruisen tegen, tegenstrijdig zijn, weerspreken, ontkennen
Czech odporovat, odmlouvat, protiřečit, nesouhlasit
Swedish opponera, säga emot, invända, motsäga
Danish modsige, imodbevise, motsige
Japanese 反論する, 異議を唱える
Catalan contradir
Finnish vastustaa, väittää vastaan, olla eri mieltä, kieltää
Norwegian motsi, stride mot, imotsette, motsette, motsette seg
Basque ezeztatu, aurka egon, ez ados egon, ezezko
Serbian protivurečiti, контрирати
Macedonian противречам, противречи
Slovenian nasprotovati, oporek
Slowakisch odporovať
Bosnian protivriječiti
Croatian opirati se, opravdati, protiviti se, protivriječiti, protivrječiti
Ukrainian заперечувати, суперечити, не відповідати, не погоджуватися
Bulgarian противореча, опротивлявам, опротивявам
Belorussian пярэчыць, супрацьстаяць, супярэчыць
Hebrewלהתנגד، להפריך، סותר
Arabicتناقض، خالف، عارض، معارضة، يعارض
Persianمخالفت کردن، تناقض داشتن، اعتراض کردن، مخالف بودن، مخالف بودن با، مغایرت داشتن با، منافات داشتن، منکرشدن
Urduمخالفت کرنا، تردید کرنا، تضاد، اختلاف

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* Sentences from the Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org) are freely available under the license CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.de). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 33101, 14631, 194983, 283991

* Sentences by Tatoeba (tatoeba.org) are freely available under the CC BY 2.0 FR (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/fr/). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 2276954, 1486816, 2227415, 2227418, 8900666, 8844110, 594377, 5102274, 10372393, 11215818, 2309203, 1019669

* Definitions come partly from Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org)> and may have been changed afterwards. They are freely available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) license: 14631, 14631

* Synonyms come partly from OpenThesaurus (openthesaurus.de) and may have been changed afterwards. They are freely available under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) license: widersprechen

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