Weckruf

German

Etymology

wecken + Ruf

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛkˌʁuːf/
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Noun

Weckruf m (strong, genitive Weckrufes or Weckrufs, plural Weckrufe)

  1. wake-up call
    • 2019 October 6, “Ohne Angst die bösartige Natur des Kommunismus ansprechen”, in Minghui:
      Dieser Satz war wie ein Weckruf für mich, er löste alle meine falschen Anschauungen auf.
      This sentence was like a wake-up call for me, it disintegrated all my wrong notions.

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