Wehrmacht
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from German Wehrmacht.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Wehrmacht
- (historical, Nazism) The German armed forces from 1935 to 1945.
- Coordinate term: Waffen-SS
- 1996, Robert Doughty, World War II: Total Warfare Around the Globe, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 106:
- In the end the Allies battered the Wehrmacht back to the Reich and ended whatever chance the Germans had of escaping their fate.
Translations edit
German edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Wehrmacht f (genitive Wehrmacht, plural Wehrmächte)
Usage notes edit
- In modern usage, Wehrmacht refers specifically to the Nazi-era military. It is no longer used for armed forces generally.
Declension edit
Declension of Wehrmacht [feminine]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | eine | die | Wehrmacht | die | Wehrmächte |
genitive | einer | der | Wehrmacht | der | Wehrmächte |
dative | einer | der | Wehrmacht | den | Wehrmächten |
accusative | eine | die | Wehrmacht | die | Wehrmächte |
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Proper noun edit
Wehrmacht f (proper noun, genitive Wehrmacht)
- (historical, Nazism) Wehrmacht (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945)
Declension edit
Declension of Wehrmacht [sg-only, feminine]
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Further reading edit
- “Wehrmacht” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Wehrmacht” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Wehrmacht” in Duden online
- Wehrmacht on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de