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Gnade.

grace, mercy, graciousness

5 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɡnaːdə/

  1. grace, mercy, graciousness

    feminine · uncountable
    Er flehte um Gnade.
    Zustand der Gnade

  2. a grace, an act of mercy or graciousness; something good that one cannot control or does not deserve

    countable · feminine
    Der Tod war eine Gnade für sie.

  3. pardon, clemency

    feminine
    Gnadengesuch
Where this word comes from

From Middle High German gnāde, genāde, from Old High German gināda, reconstructible as Proto-West Germanic *ganāþu; o-construct of a verb attested only in Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌸𐌰𐌽 (niþan, “to help”), from Proto-Germanic *nēþō, from Proto-Indo-European *nēt-eh₂-. Compare Dutch genade, Old Saxon gināða, nāða.

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