Polyglot Dictionary

Protagonist

/pʀotagoˈnɪst/

der noun B2

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
die Protagonisten

Meaning

  1. protagonist, main character (literary/formal register)

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Usage notes

Formal, literary word for the main character of a story — less common in everyday speech than Hauptfigur, which means the same thing.

Practice

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