Ein äußerst beleidigendes rassistisches Schimpfwort für einen schwarzen Menschen.
An extremely offensive racial slur for a Black person.
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Die Redaktion stritt darüber, ob das Wort überhaupt gedruckt werden solle. — Editors debated whether to print the word nigger at all.
Das Wörterbuch kennzeichnet es als äußerst beleidigend. — The dictionary marks nigger as extremely offensive.
Lehrer ersetzen das Wort, wenn sie den Roman laut vorlesen. — Teachers replace the word nigger when reading the novel aloud.
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Download the app for free German vocabulary testGerman prints the word where English will not. There is no n-word convention here: newspapers, court reports and dictionaries write it out, and the reader is expected to understand from the context that it is being discussed rather than used.
The more contested German word is Neger, which until the 1970s was the ordinary neutral term and appeared in encyclopaedias and children's books. It is now widely rejected, but the rejection is recent enough that older speakers still find it puzzling — a debate English settled decades earlier.
Neger the older native word
Neutral in German until the 1970s and printed everywhere. Its rejection is much more recent than the English equivalent's, and the argument is still live.
Schwarzer Black person
The current neutral choice, and increasingly capitalised in the English manner.
das N-Wort the n-word
A direct calque, and evidence that the English convention is now being imported.
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