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Fremdwort

foreign word

noun FREMT-vort Rare
Communication Language

Usage Note

Fremdwort is a word felt to be foreign in spelling or sound, such as Computer. The idiom Das ist ein Fremdwort für ihn means he is utterly unfamiliar with something. The plural is Fremdwörter.

Examples

"Im Text wimmelt es von Fremdwörtern."

Natural Translation

The text is teeming with foreign words.

Literal Translation

In-the text teems it of foreign-words.

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