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German
Etymology
From er- (“or-: out, resulting from”) + zählen (“tell”) + -ung (“-ing: forming nouns from verbs”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛɐˈtsɛːlʊŋ/ (standard; used naturally in western Germany and Switzerland)
- IPA(key): /-ˈtseː-/ (overall more common; particularly northern and eastern regions)
- Hyphenation: Er‧zäh‧lung
Noun
Erzählung f (genitive Erzählung, plural Erzählungen)
- tale, story; narration
- Synonym: Geschichte
- narrative (presentation of an event or story in a way to promote a certain point of view)
- Synonym: Narrativ
2022 January 4, Valentin Sagvosdkin, “debatte: Ökonomische Monokultur”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN, page 12:Die typisch neoliberale Erzählung geht so: Der Staat ist in Wirtschaftsfragen eher inkompetent.- The typical neoliberal narrative goes like this: that in questions of the economy, the state is quite incompetent.
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