"Depression" meaning in German

See Depression in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /depʁɛˈsi̯oːn/ Audio: De-Depression.ogg
Head templates: {{de-noun|f}} Depression f (genitive Depression, plural Depressionen) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|f}} Forms: Depression [genitive], Depressionen [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], Depression [nominative, singular], Depressionen [definite, nominative, plural], Depression [genitive, singular], Depressionen [definite, genitive, plural], Depression [dative, singular], Depressionen [dative, definite, plural], Depression [accusative, singular], Depressionen [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. (economics, geography, psychology) depression Tags: feminine

Inflected forms

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