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Frau Hilde ist ganz in der Gegenwart angekommen: Sie schreibt E-Mails auf ihrem Tablet. Frau Hilde has fully arrived in the present: she writes emails on her tablet.

noun · B1

die Gegenwart

[ˈɡeːɡn̩ˌvaʁt]

present, present day

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Declension

The noun in the four cases, with the definite article.

Case Singular Example
Nominative wer? was? die Gegenwart
Accusative wen? was? die Gegenwart
Dative wem? der Gegenwart
Genitive wessen? der Gegenwart

How the Word Is Built

Gegen root wart suffix

Word family

gegenwärtiggegen

In Otti's situations: Frau Hilde tells how Berlin changed

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