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Gender and declensions of German nouns

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Treppenwitz

  • pl.Treppenwitze
  • gen.Treppenwitzes
  1. staircase wit; l'esprit de l'escalier; a remark or rejoinder thought of only when it is too late
  2. an ironic and absurd coincidence; something that, if it were not true, would seem like a bad joke

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