Noun
das Pathos
pathos
C2
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Meanings
Noun
- pathos
Example sentence
Seine Rede war voller Pathos.
His speech was full of pathos.
Word forms
singular
das Pathos
No common plural.
The four cases
Singular
Nominativedas Pathos
Accusativedas Pathos
Dativedem Pathos
Genitivedes Pathos
Pathos has no common plural.
Usage
- mit großem Pathos sprechen — speak with elevated emotion or grand rhetorical emphasis
- Pathos / pathetisch — grand emotional expression / emotionally grand or overblown; not simply English pathetic
Der Schauspieler trug die letzten Zeilen mit großem Pathos vor.
The actor declaimed the final lines with great emotion.