Staatsanwalt
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃtaːt͡sˌʔanvalt/
Audio (Austria) (file) Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Staats‧an‧walt
Noun
Staatsanwalt m (strong, genitive Staatsanwaltes or Staatsanwalts, plural Staatsanwälte, feminine Staatsanwältin)
- (law) public prosecutor (UK), district attorney (US)
- 1929, Kurt Tucholsky, Das Lächeln der Mona Lisa (Sammelband), Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, page 40:
- Der Mord ist, wie jedem gebildeten Staatsanwalt bekannt, eine Tat, die in der äußersten Ekstase und mit der kältesten Roheit begangen wird.
- Murder is, as known to every educated prosecutor, an act that is committed in utmost ecstasy and with the coldest brutality.
Declension
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “Staatsanwalt” in Duden online
- “Staatsanwalt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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