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Meaning of "Pejoration" in the German dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PEJORATION IN GERMAN

Pejoration  [Pejoratio̲n] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PEJORATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
interjection
article
Pejoration is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PEJORATION MEAN IN GERMAN?

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Pejoration

Pejoration

A pejoration is, in linguistics, the change of meaning of a word towards a poorer connotation. Eine Pejoration ist in der Linguistik der Bedeutungswandel eines Wortes hin zu einem schlechteren Beiklang.

Definition of Pejoration in the German dictionary

the slide into a derogatory, negative meaning. das Abgleiten in eine abwertende, negative Bedeutung.
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GERMAN WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PEJORATION


Adaptation
Adaptatio̲n
Administration
Administratio̲n
Affiliation
Affiliatio̲n
Animation
Animatio̲n
Automation
Automatio̲n
Création
[kreaˈsjõː] 
Destination
Destinatio̲n
Determination
Determinatio̲n
Deviation
Deviatio̲n
Donation
Donatio̲n
Evaluation
Evaluatio̲n
Examination
Examinatio̲n
Explanation
Explanatio̲n
Formation
Formatio̲n
Generation
Generatio̲n 
Graduation
Graduatio̲n
Information
Informatio̲n 
Location
[lɔˈkeɪʃn̩]  , [loʊ…]
Nation
Natio̲n 
Navigation
Navigatio̲n

GERMAN WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PEJORATION

Peitsche
peitschen
Peitschenhieb
Peitschenknall
Peitschenlampe
Peitschenleuchte
Peitschenmast
Peitschenschlag
Peitschenstiel
Peitschenwurm
pejorativ
Pejorativum
Pekannuss
Pekannussbaum
Pekari
Pekesche
Pekinese
Peking
Pekingente
Pekinger

GERMAN WORDS THAT END LIKE PEJORATION

Illustration
Imagination
Immigration
Implementation
Innovation
Inspiration
Installation
Integration
Interpretation
Investigation
Invitation
Legislation
Masturbation
Motivation
Observation
Operation
Organisation
Penetration
Playstation
Population

Synonyms and antonyms of Pejoration in the German dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Pejoration» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PEJORATION

Find out the translation of Pejoration to 25 languages with our German multilingual translator.
The translations of Pejoration from German to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Pejoration» in German.

Translator German - Chinese

Pejoration
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator German - Spanish

Pejoration
570 millions of speakers

Translator German - English

Pejoration
510 millions of speakers

Translator German - Hindi

Pejoration
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator German - Arabic

Pejoration
280 millions of speakers

Translator German - Russian

Pejoration
278 millions of speakers

Translator German - Portuguese

Pejoration
270 millions of speakers

Translator German - Bengali

Pejoration
260 millions of speakers

Translator German - French

péjoration
220 millions of speakers

Translator German - Malay

Pejoration
190 millions of speakers

German

Pejoration
180 millions of speakers

Translator German - Japanese

Pejoration
130 millions of speakers

Translator German - Korean

Pejoration
85 millions of speakers

Translator German - Javanese

Pejoration
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator German - Vietnamese

Pejoration
80 millions of speakers

Translator German - Tamil

தன்மையில் குறைவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator German - Marathi

Pejoration
75 millions of speakers

Translator German - Turkish

Pejoration
70 millions of speakers

Translator German - Italian

Pejoration
65 millions of speakers

Translator German - Polish

Pejoration
50 millions of speakers

Translator German - Ukrainian

Pejoration
40 millions of speakers

Translator German - Romanian

Pejoration
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator German - Greek

Pejoration
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator German - Afrikaans

Pejoration
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator German - Swedish

Pejoration
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator German - Norwegian

Pejoration
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Pejoration

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PEJORATION»

The term «Pejoration» is normally little used and occupies the 123.307 position in our list of most widely used terms in the German dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of Pejoration
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PEJORATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Pejoration» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Pejoration» appears in digitalised printed sources in German between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the German literature, quotes and news about Pejoration

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10 GERMAN BOOKS RELATING TO «PEJORATION»

Discover the use of Pejoration in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Pejoration and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in German literature.
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Gendersymmetrie: Überlegungen zur geschlechtersymmetrischen ...
Zum anderen wurde weibliche Pejoration innerhalb der (Feministischen) Sprachwissenschaft nur im Sprachgebrauch, also auf der Ebene der Konnotation festgemacht, eine These, die in dieser Arbeit überprüft werden soll. Stellvertretend für ...
Maria Pober, 2007
2
Metasprachdiskurse: Einstellungen zu Anglizismen und ihre ...
Es zeigt sich, dass diese Bezeichnungen relativ selten sind, was möglicherweise darauf zurückzuführen ist, dass die direkte Pejoration zu direkt und damit auch wenig originell ist. Tabelle 5.1: Direkte Pejoration durch Determinativkomposition  ...
Jürgen Spitzmüller, 2005
3
Nichts und Zeit: Metaphysica Dialektica - Urtümliche Figuren
Als nächstes betrifft das die Pejoration, die sich mit der Vorsilbe un- ausdrücken läßt, wie das die Ausdrücke der Unmensch, das Untier und zur Unzeit tun. Entgegen der verbreiteten Neigung, dieses Präfix der Verneinung zuzuschlagen48, ...
Hartwig Schmidt, 2009
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Maledicta - Schimpfworter:
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Deutsch - Deutsch als Fremdsprache / Zweitsprache, Note: 2,0, Universitat Bayreuth (Lehrstuhl fur Interkulturelle Germanistik), Veranstaltung: HS Schlusselbegriffe deutscher Gegenwartskultur, ...
Uwe Mehlbaum, 2010
5
Literatur des Mittelalters
Man differenziert zwischen: a) einer Abwertung (Pejoration, von lateinisch pejor „ weniger“) und b) einer Aufwertung (Melioration, von melior „besser“). Da mit vrouwe im Mittelhochdeutschen nur adlige erwachsene Damen gemeint waren, mit ...
Heinz Sieburg, 2012
6
Grammatische Untersuchungen: Analysen und Reflexionen : ...
So gibt es im nur schwach augmentationsvitalen Deutschen Pejoration nur marginal, in den romanischen und slawischen Sprachen, in denen hoch vital augmentiert wird, ist dagegen die Pejoration ein klar separierbares eigenes Modell. 6.
Eva Breindl, Lutz Gunkel, Bruno Strecker, 2006
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Dekonstruktion des Reinen: Hybridität und ihre ...
In Mumbo Jumbo geht die Ergreifung des Wortes durch den dominanten Diskurs meist mit einer Pejoration einher; Pejoration, Umwertung und Umbenennung, so scheint Reed auch mit dem Hinweis auf Freud andeuten zu wollen, liefern dem ...
Harald Zapf, 2002
8
Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft
... 203 onomasiologisch (onomasiological) 55 Orthographie (spelling) 224 Paradigma (paradigm) 121-2 Paradigmatische Relation (paradigmatic relationship) 121-3, 289 Patholinguistik (study oflanguage disorders) 39 Pejoration (pejoration) ...
Thomas Berg, 2013
9
Französische "Pseudoanglizismen": Lehnformationen zwischen ...
Von einer solchen Pejoration können auch transferierte Elemente betroffen sein, wobei die Abwertung eines in der Ausgangssprache neutralen Elements den Gesamtinhalt oder eine Teilbedeutung betreffen mag112. In jedem Fall ist das ...
Marion Cypionka, 1994
10
Abgeleitete Personenbezeichnungen im Deutschen und ...
Aufgrund dieser Tendenz zur Pejoration von Personenbezeichnungen erhält -ler in seinem Lexikoneintrag ein semantisches Merkmal [ot pejorative], das für jedes -lerDerivat individuell zu spezifizieren ist. Zum Zwecke der Beschreibung von ...
Heike Baeskow, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PEJORATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Pejoration is used in the context of the following news items.
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Adept portrayal of complex characters
While a student, Daniel glued words all over the walls, to try to "mine potential patterns in semantic amelioration and pejoration'', while Claudette was more likely ... «Otago Daily Times, Oct 16»
2
Forget the “Deplorables.” It's the “Basket” That Makes Hillary's ...
Walpole's turn of phrase, as does Clinton's a century later, calls up basket case, though this pejoration for a “mentally imbalanced individual” doesn't show up ... «Slate Magazine, Sep 16»
3
Once Upon a Time, a Sausage Party Was Just a Party With Sausages
Many younger viewers, familiar with the popular douche-nozzle pejoration, may well learn the term's literal antecedent thanks to this comedy. The rest of the ... «Slate Magazine, Sep 16»
4
How '80s Is the Slang in Stranger Things?
It's colorful and descriptive, and innocent in its meanness, suiting Mike's fantasy-soaked imagination and earnest goodwill. But it's also a peculiar pejoration. «Slate Magazine, Aug 16»
5
Is Trump Surrogate Katrina Pierson Secretly a Radical Black Activist?
By the 1980s it was completely taboo.) Trump and his supporters frequently reject as “political correctness” the pejoration of certain words—selectively, those ... «The Daily Dot, Aug 16»
6
Bad cholesterol helps you live longer
@Johan @Christopher It never occurred to me that pejoration held such great effect on the reader, even to the point where it may influence his or her ability to ... «The Australian, Jun 16»
7
Praying for Hollywood — and Ourselves By Armond White
Where are the great moments of pejoration ... the speeches are pond water now. The announcement pairings were poor, Crowe and Gosling weren't any ... «National Review Online, Mar 16»
8
Les gendarmes tombent sur une plantation de 300 pieds de zamal
Sans pejoration, maos attentif quand meme. Oui Non ? 4. ... Moin lé creole mais out phrase " sans pejoration, maos attentif quan meme", moin la rien compris. «Zinfos 974, Feb 16»
9
Eight words that reveal the sexism at the heart of the English language
Often this takes the form of “pejoration”: when the meaning of the word “gets worse” over time. Linguists have long observed that words referring to women ... «The Guardian, Jan 16»
10
In the age of Trump, what does it mean to be “classy”?
If enough negative associations accrue, a word may undergo “pejoration,” says UNC sociolinguist Connie Eble, using the term for what happens when a word ... «The Wilson Quarterly, Jan 16»

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« EDUCALINGO. Pejoration [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-de/pejoration>. May 2024 ».
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