"Opium" meaning in German

See Opium in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈoːpiʊm/, [ˈʔoːpʰiʊm] Audio: De-Opium.ogg [Germany, Berlin] Forms: Opiums [genitive], neuter strong [table-tags], Opium [nominative, singular], Opiums [genitive, singular], Opium [dative, singular], Opium [accusative, singular]
Head templates: {{de-noun|n,,.sg}} Opium n (strong, genitive Opiums, no plural) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|n,,.sg}}
  1. opium Tags: neuter, no-plural, strong

Inflected forms

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      "form": "Opiums",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "neuter strong",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "de-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Opium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Opiums",
      "source": "declension",
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Opium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Opium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
      ]
    }
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  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "noun",
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        },
        {
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        },
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          "english": "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.",
          "ref": "1844, Karl Marx, Zur Kritik der Hegel'schen Rechts-Philosophie (Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher), page 71:",
          "text": "Die Religion ist der Seufzer der bedrängten Kreatur, das Gemüth einer herzlosen Welt, wie sie der Geist geistloser Zustände ist. Sie ist das Opium des Volks.",
          "translation": "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.",
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          "ref": "1913 [1878], chapter 20, in Hermann Röhl, transl., Anna Karenina, translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy, part 5:",
          "text": "Nur in den seltenen Augenblicken, wo das Opium ihn auf kurze Zeit seine ununterbrochenen Leiden vergessen ließ, sprach er mitunter im Halbschlummer den Gedanken aus, der im Grunde stärker als bei allen anderen in seiner Seele rege war: […].",
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    },
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      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
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    },
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    },
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      "tags": [
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Opium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
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        "German nouns",
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          "text": "Die Religion ist der Seufzer der bedrängten Kreatur, das Gemüth einer herzlosen Welt, wie sie der Geist geistloser Zustände ist. Sie ist das Opium des Volks.",
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          "text": "Nur in den seltenen Augenblicken, wo das Opium ihn auf kurze Zeit seine ununterbrochenen Leiden vergessen ließ, sprach er mitunter im Halbschlummer den Gedanken aus, der im Grunde stärker als bei allen anderen in seiner Seele rege war: […].",
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈʔoːpʰiʊm]"
    },
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      "tags": [
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}

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