"welch" meaning in German

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          "english": "How fortunate!",
          "literal_meaning": "What a luck!",
          "text": "Welch ein Glück!",
          "translation": "How fortunate!",
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          "english": "The German prankster in America",
          "ref": "1911, Erwin Rosen [pseudonym; Erwin Carlé], Der Deutsche Lausbub in Amerika [The German prankster in America], page 255:",
          "text": "Welch' ein Esel Bruder Leichtfuß doch war—welch' ein unbeschreiblich törichter dickköpfiger Junge!",
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          "ref": "1956, Ernst Bloch, Das Prinzip Hoffnung, volume 3, Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, page 304:",
          "text": "In der Tat, welch ein Weg, welch ein Vergessen und Aufhellen von dem unheimlichen eulenartigen Wesen, das ums Erechtheion geistert, bis zur Pallas Athene Homers.",
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        "(only preceding ein or an adjective, emphatic) what"
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  "word": "welch"
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          "english": "How fortunate!",
          "literal_meaning": "What a luck!",
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          "text": "Welch' ein Esel Bruder Leichtfuß doch war—welch' ein unbeschreiblich törichter dickköpfiger Junge!",
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