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Well, Bürger means citizen, and bürgerlich means middle-class. Indeed, not hard to understand.


Excellent. Now do “bürgerliches Gesetzbuch”.


The trolling of auggierose aside, whatever the bürgerliches Gesetzbuch might literally translate to, it is a triumph of the burghers, the bourgeoisie.


Law that applies only to the middle-class. Duh.


But you do know it applies to everyone in germany?


Cynicism is punishment looking for a crime.


Please tell me you are trolling?

https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/B%C3%BCrger says:

Bedeutungen:

    [1a] Einwohner einer Gemeinde
    [1b] Angehöriger eines Staates
    [2] Angehöriger der Mittelschicht, des Bürgertums




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