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haargenau

exactly, precisely

adverb HAHR-geh-now Rare
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Also means

to a hair

Usage Note

Haargenau (literally 'hair-exact') intensifies precision to the maximum, used colloquially: Das stimmt haargenau. More emphatic than genau alone, it is informal but widely understood.

Examples

"Du hast haargenau das gesagt, was ich dachte."

Natural Translation

You said exactly what I was thinking.

Literal Translation

You have hair-exactly that said, what I thought.

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