Wende

f; -, -n

1. nur Sg.; (Wendepunkt) turning point; eines Jahrhunderts: turn; (Änderung) change (zum Schlechten etc. for the worse etc.); um die Wende zum 16. Jahrhundert at the turn of the 16th century

2. POL., HIST.: die Wende the fall of Communism (in Eastern Europe); engS. (Mauerfall) the breaching (oder opening) of the Wall; vor der Wende auch before the Wall came down

3. SPORT turn; (Wendestelle) turn; Turnen: front vault

4. NAUT. turn

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die Wende

turn

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Wẹn|de I ['vɛndə]

f -, -n

turn; (= Veränderung) change; (= Wendepunkt) turning point; (TURNEN am Pferd) face or front vault; (POL) (political) watershed

die Wende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert — the transition from the 19th to the 20th century

nach dem Tod seines Vaters nahm seine Entwicklung eine Wende — after the death of his father his development changed direction or started to take a different direction

II ['vɛndə]

1. m -n, -n, Wen|din

['vɛndɪn]

2. f -, -nen

Wend

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Wen·de

<-, -n>

[ˈvɛndə]

f

1. POL (sl: politische Kehrtwendung) [political] change [or U-turn

2. BRD (Zusammenbruch der DDR) Wende, collapse of the GDR (and the subsequent reunification of Germany)

3. (einschneidende Veränderung) change, turn

die/eine \Wende zum Besseren/Schlechteren the/a turn [or change] for the better/worse

eine \Wende zum Positiven a positive change

4. SPORT face [or front] vault

5. (Übergangszeit)

▪ an der \Wende [von] ... zu etw dat at the transition from ... to sth

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die; Wende, Wenden

1) change

eine Wende zum Besseren/Schlechteren — a change for the better/worse

2)

um die Wende des Jahrhunderts — at the turn of the century

3) (Turnen) front vault

•• Cultural note:

Wende

This word can refer to any major political or social change or turning point, but it is used especially to refer to the collapse of Communism in 1989, which was symbolized by the fall of die Mauer (the Berlin wall) and eventually led to the Wiedervereinigung in 1990

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Wende f; -, -n

1. nur sg; (Wendepunkt) turning point; eines Jahrhunderts: turn; (Änderung) change (

zum Schlechten etc for the worse etc);

um die Wende zum 16. Jahrhundert at the turn of the 16th century

2. POL, HIST:

die Wende the fall of Communism (in Eastern Europe); engS. (Mauerfall) the breaching (oder opening) of the Wall;

vor der Wende auch before the Wall came down

3. SPORT turn; (Wendestelle) turn; Turnen: front vault

4. SCHIFF turn

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die; Wende, Wenden

1) change

eine Wende zum Besseren/Schlechteren — a change for the better/worse

2)

um die Wende des Jahrhunderts — at the turn of the century

3) (Turnen) front vault

•• Cultural note:

Wende

This word can refer to any major political or social change or turning point, but it is used especially to refer to the collapse of Communism in 1989, which was symbolized by the fall of die Mauer (the Berlin wall) and eventually led to the Wiedervereinigung in 1990

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-n f.

turning point n.