Interjection
hä
Pronunciation: /hɛː/
huh? what?
B2
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Meanings
Interjection
- huh? what?
- Expresses that one has not understood a statement
- Used to belittle the issuer of a statement/question
Example sentence
Warte mal, hä, wie soll das denn gehen?
Hang on, huh, how is that supposed to work?
Usage
- Hä? — huh?; very informal when one has not understood
- Hä? / Wie bitte? — casual and potentially rude / a more polite request to repeat
„Hä? Das habe ich nicht verstanden“, sagt er.
"Huh? I did not understand that," he says.