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To assign different significance or importance to individual elements of a group. This is often done based on certain criteria in order to make a result more accurate or fairer.
In der Umfrage wurden die Antworten der Teilnehmer nach Alter gewichtet, um ein repräsentatives Ergebnis zu erhalten.
In the survey, the participants' answers were weighted by age in order to obtain a representative result.
The verb 'gewichten' (to weight) is derived from the noun 'das Gewicht' (weight). When you weight something, figuratively speaking, you give it more or less 'Gewicht' (weight), meaning more or less importance.
Bei der Bewertung wird die praktische Erfahrung stärker gewichtet als die theoretischen Kenntnisse.
In the evaluation, practical experience is weighted more heavily than theoretical knowledge.
To indicate the criterion for the weighting, the preposition 'nach' with the dative is often used. The structure is: something (accusative) nach something (dative) gewichten.
Die Ergebnisse der Studie müssen nach Alter und Geschlecht der Befragten gewichtet werden.
The results of the study must be weighted by the age and gender of the respondents.
'Gewichten' (to weight) is often combined with adverbs that describe the extent of the weighting. Typical examples are 'stark gewichten' (to weight heavily), 'schwach gewichten' (to weight lightly), 'höher gewichten' (to weight more highly), or 'anders gewichten' (to weight differently).
In meinem Studium habe ich die praktischen Kurse immer höher gewichtet als die reinen Vorlesungen.
In my studies, I always weighted the practical courses more highly than the purely lecture-based classes.
This word belongs more to technical and written language. You often find it in academic texts, statistics, reports, or formal discussions.
Der Lehrer erklärte, wie er die einzelnen Noten für das Zeugnis gewichtet.
The teacher explained how he weights the individual grades for the report card.
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'berücksichtigen' and 'gewichten' both have to do with how you include information in a decision. 'berücksichtigen' means that a point is considered at all. 'gewichten' goes one step further: you decide how important this point is compared with other points. The words can be confused because when you weight things, you first consider different things. But 'berücksichtigen' does not yet say whether a point is very important or less important. 'gewichten' fits when several criteria are meant to count with different levels of importance.
Für das Projekt gewichten wir die Kosten stärker als das Design.
For the project, we weight the costs more heavily than the design.
Sie berücksichtigt bei der Planung, dass morgen viele Geschäfte geschlossen sind.
She takes into account when planning that many stores will be closed tomorrow.