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- n. Plural form of bildungsroman.
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Panvocalic polyglot
Non-English words that contain all the vowels once, "y" optional. For English examples, see Panvocalics and other lists linked there. Please tag contributions with the language they come from. Phra...
murcielago, bildungsromane, aleikoum, autrefois, consideratum, platenstudio, affettuosi, hipocentaury, vocalique, aegritudo, au revoir, au poivre and 1590 more...
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Rillons of Random Palavery
A list for terms and phrases that I haven't (yet) entered into themed lists, including my series of various 151-word Random Palavery lists. Constructions that catch my eye, ring in my ears, tease m...
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reasons to learn German
erlking, schadenfreude, bildungsromane, ersatz, leitmotif, zeitgeist, doppelgänger, zeitgeist, gemütlich, gemütlich, fernweh
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hernesheir But in many — perhaps most— Bildungsromane, this world of otherness is of subordinate interest; the real emphasis is on the development of the self of the protagonist. -- "Self and Other in Two Bildungsromane: The Centaur and The Magus", in John Neary, Something and Nothingness: the Fiction of John Updike & John Fowles, 1999, p.103.
I am aware that nouns are capitalized in German, as they were in older forms of written English, and that bildungsromane is a plural. Jul 16, 2010