Also means
consider
Usage Note
betrachten means to look at something attentively, and figuratively to regard something as: etwas als Fehler betrachten ('to consider something a mistake'). The reflexive sich betrachten means to look at oneself.
Examples
"Sie betrachtet das Bild lange."
Natural Translation
She observes the picture for a long time.
Literal Translation
She observes the picture long.
Related Words
- Akkommodation accommodation (focusing adjustment of the eye lens)
- Anosmie anosmia, loss of smell
- Blick look
- Bogengang semicircular canal (inner ear)
- Brennen burning sensation
- Dunkeladaptation dark adaptation (eye adjustment from light to darkness)
- Dämmerungssehen twilight vision, scotopic vision
- Eigengeruch body odour; characteristic personal scent
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