Wahlverwandtschaften" : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

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Gender of German nouns:
{m} = der, {f} = die, {n} = das, {pl} = die

	German	English
	"Es gehört durchaus eine gewisse Verschrobenheit dazu, um sich gern mit Karikaturen und Zerrbildern abzugeben", lässt Goethe seine Ottilie in den Wahlverwandtschaften in ihr Tagebuch schreiben. [G]	"A certain eccentricity is required to dabble in caricature and distorted images", writes Ottilie - Goethe's heroine in "The Elective Affinities" - in her diary.
The example sentences [G] were kindly provided by the Goethe Institute. Sentences marked by [EU] derived from DGT Multilingual Translation Memory. The European Commission retains ownership of the copyright in the original data.