Größe
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German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Grösse (obsolete; otherwise, Switzerland, Liechtenstein)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German grœze, from Old High German grōzī, from Proto-Germanic *grautį̄. Analysable as groß + -e.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Größe f (genitive Größe, plural Größen)
- size, height
- greatness
- 1929, Kurt Tucholsky, Das Lächeln der Mona Lisa (Sammelband), Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, page 120:
- Für die Massen ist die Nation der Inbegriff alles Mystischen, Imponderabilen, schlechthin Unbegreiflichen – auf diesem Gebiet ist alles erlaubt und kann alles verboten sein, hier wachsen die großen Männer, deren Größe an der Kleinheit der Umstehenden gemessen wird.
- For the masses the nation is the embodiment of all that is mystical, imponderable, plainly incomprehensible – in this area everything is allowed and everything can be forbidden, here the great men grow, whose greatness is measured against the smallness of the bystanders.
- 1929, Kurt Tucholsky, Das Lächeln der Mona Lisa (Sammelband), Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, page 120:
- (physics, mathematics) quantity
Declension
[edit]Declension of Größe [feminine]
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