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German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhaɪ̯d.nɪʃ/,
- Hyphenation: heid‧nisch
Adjective
heidnisch (strong nominative masculine singular heidnischer, not comparable)
- heathen, pagan
1836, Heinrich Heine, “Die romantische Schule”, in Heinrich Heine: Werke und Briefe in zehn Bänden, volume 5, Aufbau-Verlag, published 1972, page 38:[...] jetzt übersetzte er, mit unerhörtem Fleiß, auch die übrigen heidnischen Dichter des Altertums, [...]- now he translated, with unheard-of effort, also the remaining pagan poets of the antiquity,
Declension
Positive forms of heidnisch (uncomparable)
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