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I need to translate rebuke into German. It is a verb. There are three translations for that: zurechtweisen, ermahnen, tadeln. What is the difference between them?

Example:

Peter rebuked to me that I didn’t do well in the project.

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  • by the way, is there some German-German dictionary, with explanations that I could use?
    – cornejo
    Commented Oct 2, 2016 at 15:49
  • If you considered a real book, I suggest Pons "Deutsch als Fremdsprache", one can look here at some sample pages.
    – guidot
    Commented Oct 3, 2016 at 12:11
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    I do not thing that the example is correct English.
    – Carsten S
    Commented Oct 3, 2016 at 12:48
  • dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/rebuke.html Commented Oct 3, 2016 at 12:53
  • For one, there are more than three possible translations. I'm missing "rügen", for instance. For another, you "rebuke somebody" and not "to somebody". And you usually rebuke somebody "for [not] (doing) something)". Your English sentence sounds a bit weird after all.
    – Em1
    Commented Oct 4, 2016 at 7:55

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Tadeln and zurechtweisen are synonyms and translate to rebuke.

Ermahnen rather means warn or caution.

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  • Du würdest den Beispielsatz sowohl mit tadeln, als auch mit zurechtweisen übersetzen? Commented Oct 2, 2016 at 17:10
  • Peter wies mich zurecht, dass ich nicht gut an dem Projekt gearbeitet hatte.
    – adjan
    Commented Oct 2, 2016 at 17:47
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    Peter wies mich dafür zurecht, dass … / Peter tadelte mich dafür, dass
    – user22484
    Commented Oct 2, 2016 at 19:40
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Wikipediacalls a rebuke to be a type of censure. Which in turn is a type of critique.

Peter kritisierte meine Projektleistung.

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