# vogelfrei

vogelfrei is a German adjective meaning “outlawed”.

## In other languages

- Русский: вне закона, отверженный

## Meanings

1. outlawed, banished, proscribed (stripped of all rights and allowed to be killed)
2. free as a bird
   - Er fühlte sich vogelfrei, zum ersten Male ein Mann, der sich auf seinen eigenen Willen lehne. — He felt free as a bird, for the first time a man who might rely on his own will.

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