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We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.
James Stockdale

Meaning of "East German" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EAST GERMAN

East German play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EAST GERMAN

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
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East German can act as a noun and an adjective.
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.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES EAST GERMAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

East German

East Germany

East Germany, formally the German Democratic Republic or GDR, was a nominally sovereign state within the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War period. From 1949 to 1990, it administered the region of Germany which was occupied by Soviet forces at the end of the Second World War—the Soviet Occupation Zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder-Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin, but did not include it; as a result, West Berlin remained outside the control of the GDR. The German Democratic Republic was established in the Soviet Zone, while the Federal Republic was established in the three western zones. The East was often described as a satellite state of the Soviet Union. Soviet occupation authorities began transferring administrative responsibility to German communist leaders in 1948, and the GDR began to function as a state on 7 October 1949. Soviet forces, however, remained in the country throughout the Cold War to counter the heavy US military presence in the West.

Definition of East German in the English dictionary

The definition of East German in the dictionary is of or relating to the former republic of East Germany or its inhabitants. Other definition of East German is a native or inhabitant of the former East Germany.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EAST GERMAN

East Cape
East China Sea
east coast fever
East Dunbartonshire
East End
East Ender
East Europe
East European
East Flanders
East Germanic
East Germany
East India Company
East Indian
East Indies
East Kilbride
East London
East Lothian
East Malaysia
East Pakistan
East Pakistani

WORDS THAT END LIKE EAST GERMAN

alderman
chairman
Doberman
fisherman
german
hammerman
Kerman
letterman
Low German
Middle Low German
newspaperman
oysterman
riverman
Sherman
spiderman
superman
Swiss-German
wasserman
waterman
weatherman
Zuckerman

Synonyms and antonyms of East German in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «East German» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EAST GERMAN

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

Translator English - Chinese

东德
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Alemania del Este
570 millions of speakers

English

East German
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पूर्व जर्मन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشرق الألمانية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Восточной Германии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Alemanha Oriental
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পূর্ব জার্মান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Allemagne de l´Est
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jerman Timur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

DDR
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

東ドイツの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

동독
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jerman Timur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Đông Đức
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிழக்கு ஜெர்மன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पूर्व जर्मन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Doğu Alman
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tedesco-orientale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

NRD
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Східній Німеччині
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Germania de Est
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Ανατολικής Γερμανίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Oos-Duitse
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

östtyska
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

østtyske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of East German

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EAST GERMAN»

The term «East German» is regularly used and occupies the 72.876 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EAST GERMAN» OVER TIME

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

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

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3 QUOTES WITH «EAST GERMAN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word East German.
1
Kevin Bleyer
When I was a kid, while touring East Berlin - back when there was an East Berlin - I got my left foot stuck in an escalator in Alexanderplatz. A few hours later, thanks to blowtorches and chainsaws and East German soldiers and the U.S. Embassy, my foot was released, and I along with it.
2
Sigmar Gabriel
My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.
3
James Stockdale
We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EAST GERMAN»

Discover the use of East German in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to East German and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics
This book also explores the development and experience of life in East Germany, with a particular view toward addressing the question: what did modernity mean for East German state and society?
Katherine Pence, Paul Betts, 2008
2
Faust's Gold: Inside The East German Doping Machine
Provides a shocking exposT of the corrupt and ambitious East German sports machine that gave out massive doses of performance-enhancing anabolic steroids to more than ten thousand young athletes--some as young as twelve--during the 1970s ...
Steven Ungerleider, 2001
3
Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police
The definitive history of the powerful and brutal East German Secret Police
John O. Koehler, 2008
4
After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood ...
A teenage girl describes life in East Germany before and after the Berlin Wall came down.
Jana Hensel, 2004
5
The People's State
Replacing the simplistic black-and-white concept of “totalitarianism” by the notion of a “participatory dictatorship,” this book seeks to reinstate the East German people as actors in their own history.
Mary Fulbrook, 2008
6
Ostalgie - a Part of a New East German Identity?
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: 1,0, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), course: Seminar: MA, Soziale Bewegungen-Institutionen-Kulturelle Orientierungen, 13 entries in the ...
Christine Polzin, 2007
7
Requiem for an Army: The Demise of the East German Military
Most Western models suggest that in the face of open threats to the military's core interests, the army would have fought to keep the status quo.
Dale Roy Herspring, 1998
8
Legal Tender: Love and Legitimacy in the East German ...
Through close readings of a diverse selection of films and novels from the former GDR, Urang offers an eye-opening account of the ideological stakes of love stories in East German culture.
John Griffith Urang, 2010
9
Sport Under Communism: Behind the East German 'Miracle'
This book is the first in-depth exploration of why East Germany was, for two decades, one of the three most successful nations in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
Mike Dennis, Jonathan Grix, 2012
10
German History in Marxist Perspective: The East German Approach
Andreas Dorpalen's German History in Marxist Perspective: The East German Approach is the most comprehensive study of historical scholarship in the former German Democratic Republic to have appeared in any language.
Andreas Dorpalen, 1985

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EAST GERMAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term East German is used in the context of the following news items.
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German Xbox Fan Busted for Roofie-ing Girlfriend to Get More …
Castrop-Rauxel is located in the east German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. A former mining town, it has an estimated population of over ... «DailyTech, Jul 15»
2
German MotoGP statistics and facts
The first East German Grand Prix was held at the Sachsenring road circuit in 1961. The original circuit used for this event was a closed road ... «Mcnews.com.au, Jul 15»
3
Germany's eurosceptic AfD party faces split as Lucke quits
However, as highlighted by the Lucke-Petry disputes, the numbers are well short of its triumphs in three east German states last year ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
4
VIDEO: First Look - Tom Hanks Stars in Spielberg's Dramatic Thriller …
... Sebastian Koch as East German lawyer Vogel; and Academy Award nominee Alan Alda as Thomas Watters, a partner at Donovan's law firm. «Broadway World, Jul 15»
5
Cynthia Woodhead Made Spectacular Debut At '78 Worlds With 200 …
Of course, we now know that East German coaches and scientists were doping its female athletes in the era of the Iron Curtain, which makes ... «Swimming World Magazine, Jul 15»
6
Notes On the Greek Referendum's Result
... echoed the line from Bertolt Brecht's poem The Solution, which criticised the East German crackdown on anti-government demonstrations: … «thenewfederalist.eu, Jul 15»
7
Will it be better in Beijing?
Ottey came back to run 21.99 metres in the 200 final, but was pipped for the bronze by East German Heike Dreschler. In a race where the late ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Jul 15»
8
Cate Campbell plans to swim on to 2020 Olympics and smashing …
In the 100m freestyle it has only ever been done by Kornelia Ender in 1973 and 1975 during the East German doping regime. Campbell is ... «Courier Mail, Jul 15»
9
Government Uses Psy-ops, Trolls, Propaganda to Push “Conformity”
If that sounds very Sovietesque, or East German perhaps, it should. Also described are plots to lie to victims by providing “spoof online ... «The New American, Jul 15»
10
East German population to plunge by 2030
A wide-ranging demographic study released on Wednesday projects that large sections of Germany's more peripheral populations are set to ... «The Local.de, Jul 15»

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