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Kamerad
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See also: kamerad
German
Etymology
Borrowed from French camarade in the 16th century, ultimately from Latin camera (“chamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára).
Pronunciation
Noun
Kamerad m (weak, genitive Kameraden, plural Kameraden, feminine Kameradin)
- (military) comrade (fellow soldier)
- comrade (fellow, companion)
- 1929, Horst Wessel, “Horst-Wessel-Lied (Nazi Party anthem 1930–1945)”:
- Kam'raden, die Rotfront und Reaktion erschossen, / Marschier'n im Geist in unser'n Reihen mit.
- Comrades shot by the Red Front and reactionaries / March in spirit within our ranks.
- 2010, Richard Stöss, Rechtsextremismus im Wandel, 3rd edition, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, page 123:
- Ezer und seine Kameraden strebten eine parteiunabhängige Kaderorganisation an, die gewissermaßen als politischer Arm der rechtsextremen Subkulturen und Kameradschaften fungieren sollte.
- Ezer and his comrades aimed to create a non-partisan cadre organisation that would act as a kind of political arm of the right-wing extremist subcultures and comradeships.
- (colloquial) guy, fellow
Usage notes
- Does not carry the association with socialism or communism that comrade has in English or its cognates in other languages (see Genosse for the German equivalent).
- On the contrary, due to its primary usage as a military term, it is used as a term of address among right wing groups and can be used as a moniker for their members. However, the association is not inherent to the word itself, which is a neutral term in regular usage, but rather understood from context.
- Kamerad has historically been used as a truce or surrender word.
Declension
Declension of Kamerad [masculine, weak]
Derived terms
- Arbeitskamerad
- Hitlerkamerad
- Kameradschaft
- Klassenkamerad
- Schulkamerad
- Sportkamerad
Descendants
See also
- Waffengefährte
Further reading
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