# die Lesart

die Lesart is a German noun meaning “reading”. Forms: der Lesart, die Lesarten.

## Forms

- Genitive: der Lesart
- Plural: die Lesarten

## In other languages

- Русский: чтение, вариант чтения

## Meanings

1. reading, way of deciphering a text that is ambiguous (e.g. because it lacks diacritics, uses nonstandard spelling, is written in an obscure language or illegible hand etc.)
   - Konsonantenschriften lassen oft mehrere Lesarten zu. — Consonant scripts (abjads) often allow for different readings.
2. textual variant, version (any of the ways in which a phrase has been recorded in different manuscripts of the same text)
   - Von allen Lesarten scheint mir diese die ursprüngliche zu sein. — It seems to me that of all versions this is the original one.
3. _figurative_ reading, interpretation
   - Nach meiner Lesart meint der Autor hier etwas ganz anderes. — In my interpretation the author means something entirely different here.
4. version; construal
   - Beim Vergleich der beiden Lesarten ergaben sich große Unterschiede.

## Examples

- Dieser Text hat mehrere Lesarten. — There are several ways to read this text.

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