wann

From Middle High German wanne, Old High German wanne, from Proto-West Germanic *hwannā, *hwan, from Proto-Germanic *hwan. Cognate with English when.

• IPA^(key): /van/

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• Rhymes: -an

wann

1. (interrogative, standard) when

   Wann kommt er?

   When will he arrive?

   Ich weiß nicht, wann er kommt.

   I don’t know when he’ll arrive.

2. (indefinite, colloquial) sometime

   Synonym: irgendwann

   Das sollten wir mal wann besprechen, wenn alle da sind.

   We should discuss this sometime that everybody’s present.

• dann und wann
• wann anders

wann

1. (archaic or dialectal) when; if

• wann immer (“whenever”) (standard)

• wenn

• “wann” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “wann” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “wann”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

From Middle Low German wan, from Old Saxon hwan (“when”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwan, from Proto-Germanic *hwan (“when”).

Related to wannehr and wenn, Dutch wanneer and wen, High German wann and wenn, English when.

• IPA^(key): /ʋɑn/, /ʋan/
• IPA^(key): /wanː/ (conservative Eastalbian)

wann

1. when (wannehr is sometimes used with this meaning as well)

   Ik weet nich, wann he kamen deit.

   I don't know when he'll come.

• wa (before non-alveolar consonants)

From Middle High German wan, wanne, from Old High German wanne, from Proto-West Germanic *hwan, from Proto-Germanic *hwan.

• IPA^(key): /vɑn/
• Rhymes: -ɑn
• Homophone: Wann

wann

1. if
   • Luxembourgish translation of Matthew 4:6:

     Hie sot zu him: "Wann s du dem Herrgott säi Jong bass, da gehei dech hei erof! Et steet nämlech geschriwwen: Wéinst denger gëtt hien sengen Engelen den Uerder, an si droen dech op den Hänn, fir datt s du dir de Fouss net un engem Stee stéiss."

     He said to him: "If you are the Son of God, then throw yourself down! For it is written: He will give his angels charge concerning you, and they will bear you in their hands, so that you do not strike your foot on a stone."

2. when
3. as soon as, when

• (if): falls
• (as soon as): esoubal

• wéini

• wan, wonn

• IPA^(key): /wɔnn/, [wɔn]

From Proto-West Germanic *wann (“dark”), of uncertain origin, possibly related to Proto-Germanic *wanōną (“to lessen”).[1] Cognate with Old Frisian wann, wonn (“dark”).

wann

1. dark
   • Beowulf, ll. 702-3:

     Com on wanre niht / scriðan sceadugenga.

     The shadow-walker came slithering from the dark night.

• Middle English: wan, wane, wanne, won, wonne, wone
  • English: wan
  • Scots: wan

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wann

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of winnan

From Middle High German and Old High German wanne, from Proto-West Germanic *hwan, from Proto-Germanic *hwan. Compare German wann, English when.

wann

1. (interrogatory) when
2. (relative) when

Compare German wenn.

wann

1. when
2. if