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Als Lotte einen Satz in die Suchmaschine eingibt, bestätigt sich ihr Verdacht sofort. When Lotte types a sentence into the search engine, her suspicion is confirmed at once.

noun · C1

der Verdacht

[fɛɐ̯ˈdaxt]

suspicion

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Declension

The noun in the four cases, with the definite article.

Case Singular Example
Nominative wer? was? der Verdacht
Accusative wen? was? den Verdacht
Mangels eindeutiger Beweise ließen die Kollegen den Verdacht schließlich fallen. For lack of clear evidence, the colleagues eventually dropped the suspicion.
Dative wem? dem Verdacht
Genitive wessen? des Verdachts

How the Word Is Built

Ver prefix dacht root

ver-
often a change, a loss or "away": vermieten (to rent out), verlieren (to lose), sich verlaufen (to get lost).

Word family

verdächtigverdächtigen

In Otti's situations: Lotte and academic honesty

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