Noun: Pest
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Die Pest wütete besonders in den Städten. (The plague devastated especially towns and cities.)
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Ölpest (oil spill)
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Drogenpest (drug plague)
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die Wahl zwischen Pest und Cholera (a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea)
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Sowas hasse ich wie die Pest. (That’s something I really loathe.)
Nouns inflected like Pest
Klimapolitik,
Pracht,
Vehemenz,
Dramapädagogik,
Zeitdilatation,
Vielseitigkeit,
Jugendanwaltschaft,
Geldmacherei,
Mitleidenschaft,
Schutzhaft,
Datennutzung,
Instabilität,
Anglistik,
Gravität,
Haft,
Pest,
Klimaerwärmung,
Rockmusik,
Gewaltenteilung,
Anwaltschaft, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
16th century, from Latin pestis, in part through Middle French peste. Popular shortening of Middle High German pestilencie (14th c.), from related Latin pestilentia, may also have contributed (though this is impossible to prove). See: Latin Nouns '
pestis'.
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