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German
Etymology
Mensch (“human”) + -en- + Kind (“child”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛnʃn̩ˌkɪnt/
- Hyphenation: Men‧schen‧kind
Noun
Menschenkind n (strong, genitive Menschenkindes or Menschenkinds, plural Menschenkinder)
- human child
- (poetic) human, man
1930, Sigmund Freud, chapter IV, in Das Unbehagen in der Kultur , Wien: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 65; republished as James Strachey, transl., (Please provide a date or year): Die Weisen aller Zeiten haben darum nachdrücklichst von diesem Lebensweg abgeraten; er hat dennoch für eine große Anzahl von Menschenkindern seine Anziehung nicht verloren.- For that reason the wise men of every age have warned us most emphatically against this way of life; but in spite of this it has not lost its attraction for a great number of people.
Declension
Declension of Menschenkind
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