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Resignation

die Resignation

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Meaning

[1] Keeping of the waiver of your own activities under the impression of the hopelessness of being able to realize your own goals

[1] Haltung des Verzichts auf eigene Aktivitäten unter dem Eindruck der Aussichtslosigkeit, eigene Ziele verwirklichen zu können

[2] Outdated: "Voluntary resignation of an office"

[2] veraltet: „freiwillige Niederlegung eines Amtes

Examples

[1] Our warriors have forced the enemy to resign

[1] Unsere Krieger haben den Feind zur Resignation gezwungen.

[1] "In a kind of desperate resignation, however, the Commercial Council decided to let the worst endure even, without further action"

[1] „In einer Art von verzweifelter Resignation schien aber der Kommerzienrat entschlossen, auch das Schlimmste über sich ergehen zu lassen, ohne weiter dagegen anzumurren.“

[1] "It was the resignation of a people who had been incapacitated by the millennia of their own religion, by centuries by foreign rule"

[1] „Es war die Resignation eines Volkes, das durch die Jahrtausende von der eigenen Religion, durch Jahrhunderte von fremder Herrschaft entmündigt worden war.“

[1] "When Lassehn enters the basement with the Wiegands, the silence of the resignation is still spread over the room"

[1] „Als Lassehn mit den Wiegands den Keller betritt, ist immer noch das Schweigen der Resignation über den Raum verbreitet.“

[1] "Darkness and resignation were in their voice"

[1] „Finsternis und Resignation lagen in ihrer Stimme.“

[2] His resignation met all of us very much

[2] Seine Resignation hat uns alle sehr getroffen.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Resignation die Resignationen
Genitiv der Resignation der Resignationen
Dativ der Resignation den Resignationen
Akkusativ die Resignation die Resignationen

Pronunciation

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