überlebt

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German

Pronunciation

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Participle

überlebt

  1. past participle of überleben

Adjective

überlebt (strong nominative masculine singular überlebter, comparative überlebter, superlative am überlebtesten)

  1. outdated
    • 1914, Erich Mühsam, Idealistisches Manifest, in: Alarm. Manifeste aus 20 Jahren, Der Syndikalist, page 52:
      Die Jugend, der Nachwuchs, die kommende Generation hat sich mündig erklärt. Das Alter ist nicht berechtigt, mit seinen überlebten, verknöcherten Prinzipien daran zu rütteln.
      The youth, the offspring, the coming generation declared itself of age. The aged are not entitled, with their outdated, ossified principles, to question it.

Declension

Verb

überlebt

  1. inflection of überleben:
    1. third-person singular present
    2. second-person plural present
    3. plural imperative

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