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Definition 2024
Wendehals
Wendehals
German
Noun
Wendehals m (genitive Wendehalses, plural Wendehälse)
- opportunist; person with no principles
- (politics) political opportunist after a regime change, particularly in East Germany after the reunification of 1989/90
- (ornithology) Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)
Declension
Declension of Wendehals
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | ein | der | Wendehals | die | Wendehälse |
| genitive | eines | des | Wendehalses | der | Wendehälse |
| dative | einem | dem | Wendehals, Wendehalse1 |
den | Wendehälsen |
| accusative | einen | den | Wendehals | die | Wendehälse |
1Now uncommon, see notes
Descendants
- Russian: вертише́йка (vertišéjka) (calque)