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GERMAN · C2WORD NOTES
MEANING & PRONUNCIATION

die Apostrophe

apostrophe (a rhetorical address to someone absent or dead, or to a thing or idea)

IN CONTEXT

Die Apostrophe an seinen verstorbenen Vater verlieh der Rede eine Intimität, die uns Zuhörer für einen Moment beinahe zu Eindringlingen machte.

By speaking directly to his late father, he made the speech so intimate that, for a moment, we in the audience almost felt like intruders.

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