Pedant
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈdant/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ant
Noun
Pedant m (weak, genitive Pedanten, plural Pedanten, feminine Pedantin)
- pedant (person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning)
- 1906, Hermann Hesse, Unterm Rad [Beneath the Wheel], Berlin: S. Fischer:
- Man sage nicht, Schulmeister haben kein Herz und seien verknöcherte und entseelte Pedanten!
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Declension
Further reading
- “Pedant” in Duden online
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