Wehrmacht
English
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from German Wehrmacht.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editWehrmacht
- (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
editGerman
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editWehrmacht 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
editDeclension 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 |
Related terms
editProper noun
editWehrmacht f (proper noun, genitive Wehrmacht)
- (historical, Nazism) Wehrmacht (German armed forces from 1935 to 1945)
Declension
editDeclension of Wehrmacht [sg-only, feminine]
Related terms
editFurther 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
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