Menschenkind

German

Etymology

Mensch (“human”) +‎ -en- +‎ Kind (“child”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛnʃn̩ˌkɪnt/
  • Hyphenation: Men‧schen‧kind
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Noun

Menschenkind n (strong, genitive Menschenkindes or Menschenkinds, plural Menschenkinder)

  1. human child
  2. (poetic) human, man
    • 1930, Sigmund Freud, chapter IV, in Das Unbehagen in der Kultur [Civilization and Its Discontents]‎, Wien: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 65; republished as James Strachey, transl., (Please provide a date or year):
      […] Die Weisen aller Zeiten haben darum nachdrücklichst von diesem Lebensweg abgeraten; er hat dennoch für eine große Anzahl von Menschenkindern seine Anziehung nicht verloren.
      […] For that reason the wise men of every age have warned us most emphatically against this way of life; but in spite of this it has not lost its attraction for a great number of people.

Declension

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