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German
Etymology
From fern. Compare Low German Feren, dative, as in in sikerer Feren and in rhyme to Steren (pl.).
Pronunciation
Noun
Ferne f (genitive Ferne, plural Fernen)
- distance
- 1921, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Trommel, in Weberin Schuld, G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 13:
Und dann war plötzlich ein rastloses Sehnen über sie gekommen, und mit unwiderstehlicher Gewalt hatte es sie aus der Ferne hierher zurückgezogen in das Haus, wo das Glück einst wohnte.- And then she had suddenly been overcome by a restless longing, and with irresistible force she had been drawn back out of the distance here into the house where the happiness once lived.
- (in the plural) distant lands
- future, past
Declension
Further reading
- “Ferne” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Ferne” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Ferne” in Duden online