allerdings German · revision 34887

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈʔalɐdɪŋs/, /ʔalɐˈdɪŋs/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''allerdings'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Older forms are ''aller dinge'', ''allerdinge'' and, in the 15th and 16th centuries, mostly ''allerding'';^(DWB2|2, 352) Upper German also had ''allerdingen''.^(DWB2|2, 352) The form ''allerdings'' appears in the mid-16th century and prevails in the 17th.^(DWB2|2, 352)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|gmh|allerdinge|t=in all things, entirely]], written together from [[m|gmh|aller dinge]], the genitive plural of [[m|gmh|al|t=all]] and [[m|gmh|dinc|t=thing]] used as an adverb.^(Kluge 2011|32)^(DWB2|2, 352)^(Pfeifer 1993) Old High German already had the phrase [[m|goh|allero thingo]].^(DWB2|2, 352)

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+ In Early New High German the final -e was usually dropped, and the adverbial -s of the genitive singular was then added, as in [[schlechterdings]], while the genitive plural of the first part was kept.^(Kluge 2011|32)^(DWB|1, 222)^(Wiktionary) Klopstock found this mixture of plural and singular absurd and wanted both parts to agree in number.^(DWB|1, 222)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The phrase is first recorded in the first half of the 13th century, in a poem of the Tugendhafte Schreiber, meaning “in every respect, entirely”.^(DWB2|2, 352)^(Kluge 2011|32) The written-together ''allerdinge'' is found from about 1340.^(DWB2|2, 352)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The old sense “in all things, entirely” was frequent in the 17th century, became rarer and died out in the 19th.^(DWB2|2, 352) Around 1800 Adelung already found it hardly used in High German, though it occurred in the Bible.^(Adelung 1793)

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+ From the mid-18th century the word was used, with weakened meaning, to agree, confirm or stress, “certainly, indeed”, also on its own as an answer.^(DWB2|2, 352)^(Kluge 2011|32) From this agreeing use the restrictive, conjunction-like sense “however, admittedly” developed, also from the mid-18th century.^(DWB2|2, 352)^(Pfeifer 1993) In Swabian it can mean “almost”.^(DWB2|2, 352)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * First half of the 13th century – ''aller dinge'' “entirely” is recorded.^(DWB2|2, 352)

+ * c. 1430 – The shortened form ''allerding'' appears.^(DWB2|2, 352)

+ * 1442 – ''aller dings'', with the adverbial -s, is written separately.^(DWB2|2, 352)

+ * Mid-16th century – ''allerdings'' is written as one word;^(DWB2|2, 352)^(Pfeifer 1993) it prevails in the 17th century.^(DWB2|2, 352)

+ * Mid-18th century – The senses “certainly” and “however” become common.^(DWB2|2, 352)

+ * 19th century – The old sense “entirely” goes out of use.^(DWB2|2, 352)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # However, admittedly; marks a [[m|en|restriction]]: ''Das Zimmer ist hell, allerdings sehr klein.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Certainly, [[m|en|indeed]]; an emphatic yes in answer to a question: „Warst du dort?“ – „Allerdings!“^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(particle)'' Stresses the speaker's involvement: really, in fact.^(Duden GWDS 1999)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[schlechterdings]]

+ * [[all]]

+ * [[Ding]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}