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Spitzel

der Spitzel

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Meaning

[1] Someone who secretly spies around in a foreign order

[1] jemand, der in fremdem Auftrag insgeheim herumspioniert

Examples

[1] As always in the dictatorship, everyone was afraid of Spitzelnä

[1] Wie immer in der Diktatur, hatte jeder Angst vor Spitzeln.

[1] He is a spy on the factory management

[1] Er ist ein Spitzel der Werksleitung.

[1] There was no shortage of listening and spiking

[1] Es mangelte ihm nicht an Horchern und Spitzeln.

[1] "Blockwarte had the call to be Spitzel and Denunizants, so my mother was always careful not to hide the Jews hidden from her before we went into the bunker"

[1] „Blockwarte hatten den Ruf, Spitzel und Denunzianten zu sein, deshalb war meine Mutter immer darauf bedacht, die von ihr versteckten Juden gut zu verbergen, bevor wir in den Bunker gingen.“

[1] "I drank a cup of chocolate, stuffed a few biscuits into my pocket and returned to the Palazzo, I saw exactly that the same spy was behind me"

[1] „Ich trank eine Tasse Schokolade, stopfte einige Biskuits in die Tasche und kehrte in den Palazzo zurück, dabei sah ich genau, daß derselbe Spitzel hinter mir herkam.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ der Spitzel die Spitzel
Genitiv des Spitzels der Spitzel
Dativ dem Spitzel den Spitzeln
Akkusativ den Spitzel die Spitzel

Pronunciation

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