rechnen

From Middle High German rechenen, from Old High German rehhanōn (akin to Old Saxon *rekenen), from Proto-West Germanic *rekanōn. Compare Hunsrik rechne, Low German rekenen, Dutch rekenen and English reckon. Indirectly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛçnən/ (Germany)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛçnɛn/ (Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland)
• Hyphenation: rech‧nen

rechnen (weak, third-person singular present rechnet, past tense rechnete, past participle gerechnet, auxiliary haben)

1. (ambitransitive) to count, reckon, calculate, compute
2. (intransitive) to expect [with mit (+ dative)]

   Damit haben die Fans nicht gerechnet. ― Here's something fans never thought they'd see.

   Damit habe ich nicht gerechnet. ― I really wasn't expecting this.

   • 2010, Der Spiegel‎^[1], number 22/2010, page 13:

     In ihren ökonomischen Eckwerten im April rechnete die Regierung fürs kommende Jahr noch mit 3,43 Millionen Arbeitslosen.

     In their economic guidance values of April the government still expected 3.43 million unemployed for the coming year.

3. (reflexive) to pay off, to be profitable

   Synonyms: auszahlen, lohnen, rentieren

Compare the form of rechnen mit to count on.

• Rechnen, Rechner, Rechnung
• rechnend, gerechnet

• “rechnen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “rechnen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “rechnen” in Duden online
• “rechnen” in OpenThesaurus.de
• “rechnen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

From Middle High German rechenen, from Old High German rehhanōn, from Proto-Germanic *rekanōną. Cognate with German rechnen, Hunsrik rechne, Dutch rekenen, English reckon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʀæɕnən/

rechnen (third-person singular present rechent, past participle gerechent, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (transitive) to calculate
2. (transitive or intransitive) to count