Kinderzeit

German

Etymology

From Kind (child) + -er- + Zeit (time).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɪndɐˌtsaɪ̯t/
  • (file)

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. childhood
    • 1923, Sigmund Freud, Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, in: Imago: Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften, vol. 9, booklet 1, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 1:
      An den Neurosen der Kinderzeit haben wir gelernt, daß manches hier mühelos mit freiem Auge zu sehen ist, was sich späterhin nur gründlicher Forschung zu erkennen gibt.
      From the neuroses of the childhood we have learned that many a thing can be effortlessly seen here with the naked eye that shows itself later on only to thorough research.
    Synonym: Kindheit

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

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