Frida zwinkert, damit Otti die Ironie in ihrem Satz versteht. Frida winks so that Otti gets the irony in what she said.

noun · C1

die Ironie

[iʁoˈniː]

irony

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Ich verstehe Ironie auf Deutsch inzwischen viel besser als noch vor einem Jahr.

I now understand irony in German much better than I did a year ago.
Meinst du das ernst, oder war das gerade Ironie?

Do you mean that seriously, or was that irony just now?
Frau Hilde sagt mit feiner Ironie, Brunos Suppe sei sehr interessant.

Frau Hilde says with subtle irony that Bruno's soup is very interesting.

Declension

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

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

How the Word Is Built

Iron root ie suffix

Word family

ironischdie Selbstironie

In Otti's situations: Otti and the subtleties of German

andeuten die Andeutung anspielen die Anspielung die Bedeutung doppeldeutig die Doppeldeutigkeit durch die Blume sagen die Feinheit ironisch die Konnotation missverstehen

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