"roter Faden" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [German]

IPA: /ˈʁoːtɐ ˈfaːdn̩/ Audio: De-roter Faden.ogg
Etymology: Literally, “red thread”, from Goethe's Die Wahlverwandschaften. Etymology templates: {{m-g|red thread}} “red thread”, {{lit|red thread}} Literally, “red thread” Head templates: {{de-noun|roter<+> Faden<m,,^>}} roter Faden m (strong, definite nominative der rote Faden, genitive (des) roten Fadens, plural rote Fäden, definite plural die roten Fäden) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|roter<+> Faden<m,,^>}} Forms: der rote Faden [definite, nominative], roten Fadens [genitive], rote Fäden [plural], die roten Fäden [definite, plural], strong [table-tags], roter Faden [nominative, singular, strong], rote Fäden [nominative, plural, strong], roten Fadens [genitive, singular, strong], roter Fäden [genitive, plural, strong], rotem Faden [dative, singular, strong], roten Fäden [dative, plural, strong], roten Faden [accusative, singular, strong], rote Fäden [accusative, plural, strong], rote Faden [nominative, singular, weak], roten Fäden [nominative, plural, weak], roten Fadens [genitive, singular, weak], roten Fäden [genitive, plural, weak], roten Faden [dative, singular, weak], roten Fäden [dative, plural, weak], roten Faden [accusative, singular, weak], roten Fäden [accusative, plural, weak], roter Faden [mixed, nominative, singular], keine [mixed, nominative, plural], roten Fäden [mixed, nominative, plural], roten Fadens [genitive, mixed, singular], keiner [genitive, mixed, plural], roten Fäden [genitive, mixed, plural], roten Faden [dative, mixed, singular], keinen [dative, mixed, plural], roten Fäden [dative, mixed, plural], roten Faden [accusative, mixed, singular], keine [accusative, mixed, plural], roten Fäden [accusative, mixed, plural]
  1. (figurative) thread, common thread, golden thread, central theme, throughline Tags: figuratively, masculine, strong Synonyms: Grundgedanke, Grundmotiv, Leitmotiv
    Sense id: en-roter_Faden-de-noun-UAfV79j2 Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 85 15
  2. clear structure Tags: masculine, strong
    Sense id: en-roter_Faden-de-noun-WVgZCgqo
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: den Faden verlieren

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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fd/De-roter_Faden.ogg/De-roter_Faden.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/De-roter_Faden.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "roter Faden"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.