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die Stasi

B1 Noun frequency rank #5,050

What Stasi means

Noun

  1. the Stasi (the state security service and secret police of the GDR)
  2. anyone seen as restraining freedom of opinion and speech
  3. anyone seen as violating people's private sphere and/or engaged in excessive data collection

Forms

die Stasi · no common plural

Pronunciation

Stasi in a sentence

Die Stasi überwachte in der DDR das Leben vieler Bürger.

In the GDR the Stasi kept watch over the lives of many citizens.

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Stasi is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #5,050 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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