Israel's nation-state law served as a rallying point for those who believed the country could not simultaneously be democratic and a Jewish state.
Source: tatoeba (7087137)
Nation-state
Synonyms for "nation-state"
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59 translations across 57 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- nasiestaat noun (polity)
Albanian
1 entries- shteti komb noun (polity)
Arabic
1 entries- دَوْلَة قَوْمِيَّة noun (polity)
Armenian
1 entries- ազգ պետություն noun (polity)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- milli dövlət noun (polity)
Basque
1 entries- nazio-estatu noun (polity)
Belarusian
1 entries- нацыянальная дзяржава noun (polity)
Bengali
1 entries- জাতিরাষ্ট্র noun (polity)
Bulgarian
1 entries- национална държава noun (polity)
Catalan
1 entries- estat nació noun (polity)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 民族國家 /民族国家 noun (polity)
Czech
1 entries- národní stát noun (polity)
Danish
1 entries- nationalstat noun (polity)
Dutch
1 entries- natiestaat noun (polity)
Esperanto
1 entries- nacio-ŝtato noun (polity)
Estonian
1 entries- rahvusriik noun (polity)
Finnish
1 entries- kansallisvaltio noun (polity)
French
1 entries- État-nation noun (polity)
Galician
1 entries- estado-nación noun (polity)
Georgian
1 entries- ერი-სახელმწიფო noun (polity)
German
1 entries- Nationalstaat noun (polity)
Greek
1 entries- εθνικό κράτος noun (polity)
Hebrew
1 entries- מדינת לאום noun (polity)
Hindi
1 entries- राष्ट्र-राज्य noun (polity)
Hungarian
1 entries- nemzetállam noun (polity)
Icelandic
1 entries- þjóðríki noun (polity)
Indonesian
1 entries- negara-bangsa noun (polity)
Irish
1 entries- náisiúnstát noun (polity)
Italian
1 entries- Stato-nazione noun (polity)
Japanese
1 entries- 国民国家 noun (polity)
Javanese
1 entries- ꦤꦒꦫꦶ-ꦧꦁꦱ noun (polity)
Kazakh
1 entries- ұлттық мемлекет noun (polity)
Korean
1 entries- 국민 국가 noun (polity)
Latvian
1 entries- nacionāla valsts noun (polity)
Lithuanian
1 entries- tautos valstybė noun (polity)
Macedonian
1 entries- национална држава noun (polity)
Malay
1 entries- negara bangsa noun (polity)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- nasjonalstat noun (polity)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- nasjonalstat noun (polity)
Persian
1 entries- دولت ملی noun (polity)
Polish
1 entries- państwo narodowe noun (polity)
Portuguese
1 entries- estado-nação noun (polity)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਕੌਮੀ ਰਾਜ noun (polity)
Romanian
1 entries- stat național noun (polity)
Russian
2 entries- госуда́рство-на́ция noun (polity)
- национа́льное госуда́рство noun (polity)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nacionalna država noun (polity)
- национална држава noun (polity)
Slovak
1 entries- národný štát noun (polity)
Slovene
1 entries- nacionalna država noun (polity)
Spanish
1 entries- estado-nación noun (polity)
Swedish
1 entries- nationalstat noun (polity)
Tamil
1 entries- தேசிய அரசு noun (polity)
Thai
1 entries- รัฐชาติ noun (polity)
Turkish
1 entries- ulus devlet noun (polity)
Ukrainian
1 entries- націона́льна держа́ва noun (polity)
Urdu
1 entries- قومی ریاست noun (polity)
Vietnamese
1 entries- quốc gia dân tộc noun (polity)
Welsh
1 entries- cenedl-wladwriaeth noun (polity)
Sample sentences
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Israel is the Nation-State of the Jewish people.
Source: tatoeba (11878493)
Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the duble”), and has a national anthem that’s played on state occasions.
Source: wiktionary
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