Vokabahn

Noun

die Aufklärung

the Enlightenment

B1 rank #1,818 plural Aufklärungen

Meanings

Noun
  1. the Enlightenment
  2. the act of enlightening; an instance of enlightening
  3. clarification, as of a criminal case, mystery, etc
  4. elucidation

In a sentence

Aufklärung ist der Ausgang des Menschen aus seiner selbst verschuldeten Unmündigkeit.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.

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Forms

die Aufklärung · die Aufklärungen

Aufklärung is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #1,818 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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