Doppelgänger
See also: doppelganger and doppelgänger
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdɔpl̩ˌɡɛŋɐ]
Audio (file)
Noun
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- doppelganger, doppelgänger
- 1928, Kurt Tucholsky, Herr Wendriner betrügt seine Frau:
- Vorigen Sonnabend? Ich? Mich haben Sie in der Scala gesehn? Da müssen Sie sich getäuscht haben. Das muß ein Doppelgänger gewesen sein! Ausgeschlossen.
- Last Saturday? Me? You saw me in the Scala? You must have been mistaken. It must have been a doppelganger. No way!
Declension
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Related terms
Descendants
- → Danish: dobbeltgænger (calque)
- → Dutch: dubbelganger (calque)
- → English: doppelganger, → doubleganger (calque)
- → Japanese: ドッペルゲンガー
- → Korean: 도플갱어 (dopeulgaeng'eo)
- → Portuguese: doppelganger
Further reading
- “Doppelgänger” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Doppelgänger” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Doppelgänger” in Duden online
Doppelgänger on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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