Hassrede

German

Etymology

Hass +‎ Rede. The uncountable use is a semantic loan from English hate speech, though there exists an intermediate usage based on the indefinite plural.

Noun

Hassrede f (genitive Hassrede, plural Hassreden)

  1. tirade, a hateful speech
    Antonym: Lobrede
    • 1998 February 13, “Der Weg zur Nationalversammlung in der Paulskirche”, in Saarbrücker Zeitung:
      Die Kirchgänger mußten den um die Kirche liegenden Friedhof überqueren und wurden so Ohrenzeugen der Haßrede, in welcher der abgefallene Priester die Lehre der Kirche, besonders die Beichte als Aberglauben verhöhnte.
      Churchgoers had to cross the cemetery surrounding the church and thereby overheard the hateful tirade, in which the apostate priest mocked the teachings of the Church, especially confession, as superstition.
  2. (uncountable or indefinite plural) hate speech
    • 2021 January 14, Heike Buchter, Götz Hamann, Jens Tönnesmann, “Facebook: Die Macht bröckelt”, in Die Zeit‎[1], number 42/2021, archived from the original on 10 November 2021:
      Die Informatikerin hat bis Mai bei Facebook gearbeitet, lange in einer Abteilung zur Eindämmung von Hassrede und Lügen.
      The computer scientist had been working for Facebook until May, for a long time she had been part of a department working to curb hate speech and lies.

Declension

Declension of Hassrede [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Hassrede die Hassreden
genitive einer der Hassrede der Hassreden
dative einer der Hassrede den Hassreden
accusative eine die Hassrede die Hassreden

Further reading

  • “Hassrede” in Duden online
  • “Hassrede” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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