See Geschichte in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "Lügengeschichte"
},
{
"sense": "story",
"word": "Münchhausengeschichte"
},
{
"sense": "story",
"word": "Schöpfungsgeschichte"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"lang_code": "lb",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "Geschicht"
},
{
"lang": "Silesian",
"lang_code": "szl",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "gyszichta"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "gmh",
"3": "geschicht(e)",
"4": "geschicht(e)",
"5": "event, struggle, story, history"
},
"expansion": "Middle High German geschicht(e) (“event, struggle, story, history”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "goh",
"3": "gisciht"
},
"expansion": "Old High German gisciht",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*skehaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *skehaną",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "geschehen"
},
"expansion": "German geschehen",
"name": "m+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "wym",
"2": "gyśicht"
},
"expansion": "Vilamovian gyśicht",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle High German geschicht(e) (“event, struggle, story, history”), from Old High German gisciht, from the verb Proto-Germanic *skehaną, whence German geschehen. Unrelated to Schicht. Cognate with Vilamovian gyśicht.",
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{
"form": "Geschichte",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "Geschichten",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Geschichtchen",
"tags": [
"diminutive",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
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"table-tags"
]
},
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"form": "de-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "Geschichte",
"source": "declension",
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"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Geschichten",
"source": "declension",
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"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Geschichte",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Geschichten",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Geschichte",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Geschichten",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Geschichte",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "Geschichten",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"dim": "chen"
},
"expansion": "Geschichte f (genitive Geschichte, plural Geschichten, diminutive Geschichtchen n)",
"name": "de-noun"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"Ge",
"schich",
"te"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"name": "de-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "geschehen"
},
{
"word": "Erzählung"
},
{
"word": "Legende"
},
{
"word": "Märchen"
},
{
"word": "Sage"
},
{
"word": "Historie"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"German terms with usage examples",
"German uncountable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
10
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
8,
15
]
],
"english": "to make history",
"text": "Geschichte schreiben",
"translation": "to make history",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
7,
17
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
14,
21
]
],
"english": "to go down in history",
"text": "in die Geschichte eingehen",
"translation": "to go down in history",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
4,
14
],
[
219,
229
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
0,
7
],
[
153,
160
],
[
244,
251
]
],
"english": "History does nothing, it ‘possesses no immense wealth’, it ‘wages no battles’. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses and fights; ‘history’ is not, as it were, a person apart, using man as a means to achieve its own aims; history is nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims.",
"ref": "1962 [1845], Friedrich Engels, “Hinrichs Nr. II. Die ‘Kritik’ und ‘Feuerbach’. Verdammung der Philosophie”, in Die heilige Familie (Marx-Engels-Werke; 2), page 98; English translation from “Hinrichs No. 2. ‘Criticism’ and ‘Feuerbach’. Condemnation of Philosophy”, in Richard Dixon & Clemens Dutt, transl., The Holy Family (Marx/Engels Collected Works; 4), 1975, page 93:",
"text": "Die Geschichte tut nichts, sie ‘besitzt keinen ungeheuren Reichtum’, sie ‘kämpft keine Kampfe’! Es ist vielmehr der Mensch, der wirkliche, lebendige Mensch, der das alles tut, besitzt und kämpft; es ist nicht etwa die ‘Geschichte’, die den Menschen zum Mittel braucht, um ihre - als ob sie eine aparte Person wäre - Zwecke durchzuarbeiten, sondern sie ist nichts als die Tätigkeit des seine Zwecke verfolgenden Menschen.",
"translation": "History does nothing, it ‘possesses no immense wealth’, it ‘wages no battles’. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses and fights; ‘history’ is not, as it were, a person apart, using man as a means to achieve its own aims; history is nothing but the activity of man pursuing his aims.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"history"
],
"links": [
[
"history",
"history"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) history"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Historie"
}
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"German countable nouns",
"German terms with usage examples"
],
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{
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5,
15
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],
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11,
16
]
],
"english": "to write a story",
"text": "eine Geschichte schreiben",
"translation": "to write a story",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
14,
24
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
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18,
23
]
],
"english": "to tell someone a story",
"text": "jemandem eine Geschichte erzählen",
"translation": "to tell someone a story",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"story"
],
"links": [
[
"story",
"story"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) story"
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"feminine"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ɡəˈʃɪçtə/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪçtə"
}
],
"word": "Geschichte"
}
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