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West German en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of, from, or pertaining to West Germany.
   • The first Antifas functioned as platforms to organize against far-right groups like the National Democratic Party (NPD) in an autonomist movement still numbering in the tens of thousands of active members and capable of occupying entire city blocks in some West German metropoles. 2017 May 14, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2025:
   • After 1945 West Germans wisely shunned the word. The East Germans were less inhibited: it was now the West German media that became the capitalist and fascist Lügenpresse. 2016 November 24, “America’s alt-right learns to speak Nazi: “Lügenpresse””, in The Economist, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2020:

Translations (13)

nl West-Duits (from or pertaining to West Germany) · fi länsisaksalainen (from or pertaining to West Germany) · sv västtysk (from or pertaining to West Germany) · ru за̀падногерма́нский (from or pertaining to West Germany) · be заходнегерма́нскі (from or pertaining to West Germany) · pl zachodnioniemiecki (from or pertaining to West Germany) · de westdeutsch (from or pertaining to West Germany) · it tedesco-occidentale (from or pertaining to West Germany) · sk západonemecký (from or pertaining to West Germany) · cs západoněmecký (from or pertaining to West Germany) · da vesttysk (from or pertaining to West Germany) · ka დასავლეთ გერმანული (from or pertaining to West Germany) · uk західноніме́цький (from or pertaining to West Germany)

West German en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A person who comes from or lives in West Germany.
   • After 1945 West Germans wisely shunned the word. The East Germans were less inhibited: it was now the West German media that became the capitalist and fascist Lügenpresse. 2016 November 24, “America’s alt-right learns to speak Nazi: “Lügenpresse””, in The Economist, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2020:

Forms

Translations (8)

nl West-Duitse (person who comes from or lives in West Germany) · sv västtysk (person who comes from or lives in West Germany) · it tedesca-occidentale (person who comes from or lives in West Germany) · ka დასავლეთ გერმანელი (person who comes from or lives in West Germany) · nl West-Duitser (person who comes from or lives in West Germany) · da vesttysker (person who comes from or lives in West Germany) · it tedesco-occidentale (person who comes from or lives in West Germany) · fi länsisaksalainen (person who comes from or lives in West Germany)