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"text": "But if Fritz is stationed in that patch of woodland, we've got no chance!"
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"text": "You! Fritz! Tell us where the ammunition's kept!"
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"english": "It is quite possible that two Fritzes had to be distinguished, father and son, perhaps Fritz 1 (1400-1428) and Fritz 2 (c. 1444).",
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"text": "1856, Archiv des historischen Vereines von Unterfranken und Aschaffenburg, 14. Band, 1. Heft, page 138",
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"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "2008, Julia Schroda, Nationaler Anspruch und regionale Identität im Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen im Spiegel des französisch-sprachigen Elsaßromans (1871-1914), Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Philogischen Fakultät der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br., page 287",
"text": "Louise ist auf dem dünnen Eis eingebrochen, heroisch eilt der junge Offizier zu ihrer Rettung. Der Erzähler gesteht den deutschen Soldaten, die schnell Louisens und Fritzens Rettung organisieren, Entschlossenheit und Tatkraft zu.",
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"text": "Otto Behagel, Von deutscher Sprache, page 385",
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"text": "Nadja wußte, daß Serjoshka die Wahrheit sprach; er hatte zwei Fritze erschossen und würde noch mehr erschießen. „Sie werden dich erschießen\", befürchtete sie.",
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"ref": ", Eessaare Aadu, Endel Sőgel, Estnische Novellen, German translation by Aivo Kaidja, Helga Viira and Viktor Sepp, page 372",
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"english": "\"Vasily alone\", the major pointed to the sleeping officer, \"shot three Fritzes with his revolver.\"",
"ref": "1979, Willi Bredel, Die Enkel, page 416",
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"english": "\"… since this morning I have killed five Fritzes and used four grenades in the process.\"",
"ref": ", Vasily Grossman, Leben und Schicksal, German translation by Efim Etkind and Simon Markish, page 239",
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"ref": ", Vasily Grossman, Leben und Schicksal, German translation by Efim Etkind and Simon Markish, page 250",
"text": "[...] Kommandeur des Trupps sich geweigert habe, einen Rechenschaftsbericht zu schreiben, mit der Begründung: «Ich hab keine Zeit, mich mit blödem Papierkram zu befassen. Wir legen nur vor den Fritzen Rechenschaft ab.»",
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"ref": "1978, Hans Blickensdörfer, Die Söhne des Krieges, page 239",
"text": "Eigentlich, denkt er, bist du das größte Rindvieh unter Rußlands Sonne, Fedor Tarkanow. Kaum hast du Sohn und Frau, stürzt du dich in das verrückteste aller Abenteuer und riskierst Kopf und Kragen für zwei Fritzen.",
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"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Fritz",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Fritzen",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Fritz",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Fritze",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Fritzen",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m,':ensolder ending,e:en"
},
"expansion": "Fritz m (strong or mixed, genitive Fritz' or (older ending) Fritzens, plural Fritze or Fritzen)",
"name": "de-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m,':ensolder ending,e:en"
},
"name": "de-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "Ami"
},
{
"word": "Tommy"
},
{
"word": "Iwan"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"German derogatory terms",
"German terms with quotations",
"Requests for translations of German quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Nadia knew that Serioshka was telling the truth; he had shot two Fritzes and would shoot still more. \"They'll shoot you\", she feared.",
"ref": ", Alaksandr A. Fadeev, Der junge Garde, German translation, page 135",
"text": "Nadja wußte, daß Serjoshka die Wahrheit sprach; er hatte zwei Fritze erschossen und würde noch mehr erschießen. „Sie werden dich erschießen\", befürchtete sie.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "One of the Germans' goods trains had derailed, somewhere in the forest two Fritzes had been killed, and both deeds had been blamed on the Communists, …",
"ref": ", Eessaare Aadu, Endel Sőgel, Estnische Novellen, German translation by Aivo Kaidja, Helga Viira and Viktor Sepp, page 372",
"text": "Ein Güterzug der Deutschen war entgleist, irgendwo im Wald waren zwei Fritze kaltgemacht und beide Taten den Kommunisten angelastet worden, [...]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "\"Vasily alone\", the major pointed to the sleeping officer, \"shot three Fritzes with his revolver.\"",
"ref": "1979, Willi Bredel, Die Enkel, page 416",
"text": "\"Wassilij allein\", der Major wies auf den schlafenden Offizier, „hat drei Fritze mit seinem Revolver niedergestreckt.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "\"… since this morning I have killed five Fritzes and used four grenades in the process.\"",
"ref": ", Vasily Grossman, Leben und Schicksal, German translation by Efim Etkind and Simon Markish, page 239",
"text": "« [...] seit heute Morgen habe ich fünf Fritzen umgelegt und dabei vier Granaten verbraucht.»",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": ", Vasily Grossman, Leben und Schicksal, German translation by Efim Etkind and Simon Markish, page 250",
"text": "[...] Kommandeur des Trupps sich geweigert habe, einen Rechenschaftsbericht zu schreiben, mit der Begründung: «Ich hab keine Zeit, mich mit blödem Papierkram zu befassen. Wir legen nur vor den Fritzen Rechenschaft ab.»",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "1978, Hans Blickensdörfer, Die Söhne des Krieges, page 239",
"text": "Eigentlich, denkt er, bist du das größte Rindvieh unter Rußlands Sonne, Fedor Tarkanow. Kaum hast du Sohn und Frau, stürzt du dich in das verrückteste aller Abenteuer und riskierst Kopf und Kragen für zwei Fritzen.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a Fritz, a German"
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"Fritz",
"#English"
],
[
"German",
"German"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(used by non-Germans, derogatory) a Fritz, a German"
],
"raw_tags": [
"used by non-Germans"
],
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"masculine",
"mixed",
"strong"
]
}
],
"word": "Fritz"
}
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