#ueber

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Niemand ist frei, der ueber sich selbst nicht Herr ist.

Никто не может быть свободным, пока он не принадлежит сам себе.

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Niemand ist frei, der ueber sich selbst nicht Herr ist.

Никто не может быть свободным, пока он не принадлежит сам себе.

Über, sometimes written uber in ENGLISH, is a German word meaning "over", "above" or "across". It’s relatively well-known within Anglophone communities due to its occasional use as a hyphenated prefix in informal English, usually for emphasis. The German word is properly spelled with an Umlaut, while the spelling of the English loanword varies. In German, über is a preposition, as well as a prefix. Both uses indicate a state or action involving increased elevation or quantity in the physical sense, or superiority or excess in the abstract. Examples:

- "überdacht" - roof-covered, roofed, also: reconsidered, thought over

- "über 100 Meter" - more than 100 meters

- "Überschall" - supersonic

- "überlegen" - (adj) superior, elite, predominant. (verb) to consider

- "übertreiben" - to exaggerate

- "überfüllt" - overcrowded

As a preposition, its meaning depends on context. For example, über etwas sprechen (to speak about something), über die Brücke (across the bridge). It also translates to over, above, meta, but mainly in compound words. The actual translation depends on context. Another example would be Nietzsche's term “Übermensch”, another example is the Deutschlandlied, which begins with the words "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" meaning "Germany, Germany above all" (this strophe is not sung anymore, because it is mistaken as meaning "Germany above the rest of the world"; even though its original meaning was the German nation above its constituent states [Prussia, Hanover, Württemberg, etc.]. The German word “unter”, meaning beneath or under, is antonymous to über - it can be found in words like U-Bahn (subway), U-Boot (submarine), as well as toponyms, such as Unter den Linden.