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Words of Fear and Trembling · 16 headwords
Each word with its meanings, its forms, and the lines it stands in.
wahrscheinlich
probable once
wahbrscheinlicher
"wahrscheinlicher Weise" is a fixed German phrase meaning "in all probability".
wer
Who 4 times
Wer
This and the following lines are a German quotation of Shakespeare's Richard III (Act 2, Scene 1; Schlegel-Tieck translation): 'Wer bat für ihn? wer kniet' in meinem Grimm / Zu Füßen mir und bat mich, überlegen? / Wer sprach von Bruderpflicht? wer sprach von Liebe?' Several words ('får', 'Fissen', 'åberlegen') are print/OCR corruptions of the German originals 'für', 'Füßen', 'überlegen'.
wirthschafte
keep house once
wirthschafte
Kierkegaard's ironic borrowing of German wirtschaften ("to carry on, run a household/business"), not standard Danish
Seen once or twice
was
which once
Weise
manner once
welche
who once
Welt
world once
werden
would twice
Werke
Works once
wie
as once
wieder
again once
wirklich
veritable once
Witz
wit twice
witzig
witty twice
wo
somewhere once
wohlerzogen
well-bred once
The particulars
- The words
- Every word of the text, parsed: its headword, its form and its meaning in the line. Source text: public domain (Søren Kierkegaard, d. 1855; first published 1843, under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio).
- Translation
- Public-domain Danish (Kierkegaard, d. 1855; published 1843). English translation © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC.
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