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Frau Hilde besucht als Zeitzeugin eine Schulklasse und erzählt von der Luftbrücke. Frau Hilde visits a school class as a contemporary witness and talks about the airlift.

noun · C1

die Zeitzeugin

[ˈt͡saɪ̯tˌt͡sɔɪ̯ɡɪn]

contemporary witness, eyewitness to history

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Other Examples

  • Wir haben für unseren Podcast eine Zeitzeugin interviewt, die 1948 in Tempelhof wohnte.

    For our podcast we interviewed a contemporary witness who lived in Tempelhof in 1948.

  • Kennst du eine Zeitzeugin, die mir von den ersten Jahren nach dem Krieg erzählen könnte?

    Do you know a contemporary witness who could tell me about the first years after the war?

  • Emil filmt seine Urgroßmutter, eine Zeitzeugin der Nachkriegszeit, für ein Familienvideo.

    Emil films his great-grandmother, a witness of the post-war years, for a family video.

Grammar

Plural
die Zeitzeuginnen In the plural the article is always "die".

Declension

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

Case Singular Plural Example
Nominative wer? was? die Zeitzeugin die Zeitzeuginnen
Accusative wen? was? die Zeitzeugin die Zeitzeuginnen
Dative wem? der Zeitzeugin den Zeitzeuginnen
Genitive wessen? der Zeitzeugin der Zeitzeuginnen

How the Word Is Built

Zeit root zeug root in suffix

-in
the female form of a person: der Lehrer → die Lehrerin.

A compound: die Zeit + die Zeugin

The last word gives the article. More rules

Word family

In Otti's situations: Frau Hilde writes her memoirs

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