Gnade

• Gnad'

From Middle High German gnāde, genāde, from Old High German gināda, reconstructible as Proto-West Germanic *ganāþu; o-construct of a verb attested only in Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌸𐌰𐌽 (niþan, “to help”), from Proto-Germanic *nēþō, from Proto-Indo-European *nēt-eh₂-. Compare Dutch genade, Old Saxon gināða, nāða.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡnaːdə/

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• Hyphenation: Gna‧de

Gnade f (genitive Gnade, plural Gnaden)

1. (uncountable) grace, mercy, graciousness

   Er flehte um Gnade. ― He begged for mercy.

   Zustand der Gnade ― state of grace, the state of being redeemed by God such that one goes to Heaven if one dies in this state

   Nach katholischer Lehre verlässt der Getaufte den Zustand der Gnade durch die Begehung einer Todsünde. ― According to Catholic teaching, a baptised person leaves the state of grace by committing a mortal sin.

2. (countable) a grace, an act of mercy or graciousness; something good that one cannot control or does not deserve

   Der Tod war eine Gnade für sie. ― Death was a grace for her.

3. (law) pardon, clemency

   Gnadengesuch ― clemency plea

• gnadenvoll, gnadenreich
• Gnadenbrot, Gnadengesuch, Gnadenerlass, Gnadenschuss, Gnadenstoß
• Gottesgnade, Herrschergnade

• “Gnade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Gnade” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Gnade” in Duden online
•   Gnade on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de