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German
Etymology
Stadt (“town, city”) + Gespräch (“talk, discussion, conversation”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃtat.ɡəˌʃpʁɛːç/ (standard; used naturally in western Germany and Switzerland)
- IPA(key): /-ɡəˌʃpʁeːç/ (overall more common; particularly northern and eastern regions)
- Hyphenation: Stadt‧ge‧spräch
Noun
Stadtgespräch n (strong, genitive Stadtgespräches or Stadtgesprächs, plural Stadtgespräche)
- talk of the town
Der Vorfall war wochenlang Stadtgespräch.- The incident was the talk of the town for weeks.
2002, Heinz-Dieter Herbig, Hitlers Nichte: Roman, Königshausen & Neumann, →ISBN, page 69:Das Stadtgespräch von München war Berlin. Das Stadtgespräch von Berlin war Paris. Das Stadtgespräch von Paris war New York. Und das Stadtgespräch von New York ... nein, war nicht München.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Declension of Stadtgespräch
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