Flüchtling

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German

Etymology

From Flucht +‎ -ling or flüchten +‎ -ling.

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Noun

Flüchtling m (strong, genitive Flüchtlings, plural Flüchtlinge, feminine (archaic) Flüchtlingin)

  1. refugee
    • 2010, Friederike Ott, “Im Garten der Regeln”, in Der Spiegel, number 35, page 102:
      Es leben etwa 300 000 Bürger des ehemaligen Jugoslawien in der Schweiz, kaum ein Staat hat damals im Verhältnis zu seiner Einwohnerzahl so viele Flüchtlinge aufgenommen.
      There are about 300,000 citizens of the former Yugoslavia living in Switzerland, hardly any state took in so many refugees in relation to its population at that time.
  2. fugitive, escapee
    • 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Studierzimmer”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One]‎; republished as Bayard Taylor, transl., 1870:
      Bist du, Geselle / Ein Flüchtling der Hölle? / So sieh dies Zeichen / Dem sie sich beugen, / Die schwarzen Scharen!
      Art thou, my gay one, / Hell's fugitive stray-one? / The sign witness now, / Before which they bow, The cohorts of Hell!

Declension

Declension of Flüchtling
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Flüchtling die Flüchtlinge
genitive eines des Flüchtlings der Flüchtlinge
dative einem dem Flüchtling den Flüchtlingen
accusative einen den Flüchtling die Flüchtlinge

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