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German
Etymology
From Middle High German enphremden, entvremden. ent- + fremd.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): ,
- Hyphenation: ent‧frem‧den
Verb
entfremden (weak, third-person singular present entfremdet, past tense entfremdete, past participle entfremdet, auxiliary haben)
- (ditransitive) to estrange, to alienate
2021 October 21, Christina Berndt, “Entfremdung von Eltern und Kindern ist häufig”, in Süddeutsche.de:Erschreckend viele Menschen entfremden sich im Laufe ihres Lebens von ihren Eltern. Bestimmte Ereignisse und Verhaltensweisen können diese Entwicklung verstärken.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1844, Karl Marx, “Die entfremdete Arbeit [Estranged Labour]”, in Martin Milligan, transl., Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, translation of Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte (in German):Indem die entfremdete Arbeit dem Menschen 1. die Natur entfremdet, 2. sich selbst, seine eigne tätige Funktion, seine Lebenstätigkeit, so entfremdet sie dem Menschen die Gattung; sie macht ihm das Gattungsleben zum Mittel des individuellen Lebens. Erstens entfremdet sie das Gattungsleben und das individuelle Leben, und zweitens macht sie das letztere in seiner Abstraktion zum Zweck des ersten, ebenfalls in seiner abstrakten und entfremdeten Form.- In estranging from man (1) nature, and (2) himself, his own active functions, his life activity, estranged labor estranges the species from man. It changes for him the life of the species into a means of individual life. First it estranges the life of the species and individual life, and secondly it makes individual life in its abstract form the purpose of the life of the species, likewise in its abstract and estranged form.
Conjugation
Conjugation of
entfremden (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
entfremden (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
Derived terms
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