German Definition
German
See also german,
and Germán
English
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German
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈdʒ͡ɜːmən/, SAMPA: /"dZ3:m@n/
- (US) IPA: /ˈdʒ͡ɝmən/, SAMPA: /"dZ3`m@n/
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- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)mən
Etymology
From Latin germani (“the peoples of Germania”), as distinct from Gauls (Caesar, Tacitus).
Noun
German (plural Germans)
- An inhabitant of Germany; a person of German descent.
- A member of a Germanic tribe.
- Rome was sacked by Germans and the Western Roman Empire collapsed.
Synonyms
Proper noun
German
- An Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and a small part of Belgium.
- German has three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter.
Synonyms
Translations
the German language
- Afrikaans: Duits (af)
- Albanian: gjermanishte (sq)
- Alemannic German: Deitscha (gsw)
- Amharic: ጀርመን (am) (järmän)
- Arabic: ألمانية (ar) (’almaníya) f., ألماني (ar) ('almaaniy) m.
- Aragonese: alemán (an)
- Armenian: գերմաներեն (hy) (germaneren)
- Asturian: alemán (ast)
- Aymara: aliman aru (ay)
- Azeri: Alman dili (az)
- Basque: aleman (eu), alemanera (eu)
- Bavarian: Deitsch
- Belarusian: нямецкая мова (be) (njaméckaja móva) f., нямецкая (be) (njaméckaja) f.
- Bikol Central: Alemán
- Bosnian: njemački (bs) m.
- Breton: alamaneg (br) m.
- Bulgarian: немски (bg) (némski) m., немски език (bg) (némski ezík) m.
- Catalan: alemany (ca), alt alemany (ca) m.
- Cebuano: inaleman
- Cherokee: ᎠᏛᏥ (chr)
- Chinese:
- Hakka: tet-vùn
- Mandarin: 德語 (cmn), 德语 (cmn) (Déyǔ)
- Min Dong: Dáik-ngṳ̄
- Min Nan: tek-gí (nan)
- Cornish: almaynek (kw)
- Croatian: njèmāčkī (hr) m.
- Czech: němčina (cs) f.
- Danish: tysk (da)
- Dhivehi: އަލްމާނީ (dv)
- Dutch: Duits (nl) n.
- Dutch Low Saxon: duuts
- Esperanto: Germana (eo)
- Estonian: saksa (et)
- Faroese: týskt (fo)
- Finnish: saksa (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: alemand
- French: allemand (fr) m.
- Galician: alemán (gl)
- Georgian: გერმანული (ka) (germanuli)
- German: Deutsch (de) n., Hochdeutsch (de) n., deutsche Sprache (de) f.
- Greek: γερμανικά (el) (germaniká) n. pl.
- Greenlandic: Tyskisut (kl)
- Gujarati: જર્મન (gu)
- Haitian Creole: alman
- Hebrew: גרמנית (he) (germanít) f.
- Hindi: जर्मन (hi) (jarman)
- Hungarian: német (hu)
- Hunsrik: taytx
- Icelandic: þýska (is)
- Ido: Germana (io), Germaniana (io)
- Ilocano: Aleman
- Indonesian: bahasa Jerman (id)
- Interlingua: germano (ia)
- Interlingue: german (ie)
- Irish: Gearmáinis (ga)
- Italian: tedesco (it) m.
- Japanese: ドイツ語 (ja) (ドイツご, Doitsu-go), 独語 (ja) (どくご, Doku-go)
- Kannada: ಡಚ್ (kn)
- Kazakh: неміс (kk)
- Khmer: ភាសាអាឡឺម៉ង់ (pʰīăsā āleumong)
- Kinyarwanda: ikidage (rw)
- Kongo: kidoitce
- Korean: 독일어 (ko) (獨逸語 Dogir-eo), 독어 (ko) (獨語 Dog-eo)
- Kurdish: elmanî (ku)
- Latin: lingua Germana (la), lingua theodisca (la)
- Limburgish: Pruusj (li) n.
- Lingala: lialémani (ln)
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- Lithuanian: vokiečių (lt), vokiečių kalba (lt)
- Lojban: dotybau (jbo)
- Lower Sorbian: nimšćina
- Luhya: please add this translation if you can
- Luxembourgish: Däitsch (lb)
- Macedonian: германски (mk) (gérmanski) m., германски јазик (mk) (gérmanski jázik) m.
- Malagasy: alema (mg)
- Malay: bahasa Jerman (ms), Jerman (ms)
- Maltese: il-Ġermaniż
- Manx: germaanish (gv)
- Mapudungun: alemaña dungun
- Mongolian: герман хэл (mn) (german xel)
- Nahuatl: teutontlahtōlli (nah)
- Navajo: Bééshbichʼahii bizaad
- Norman: allemaund
- Northern Sami: duiskkagiella
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tysk (nb) m.
- Nynorsk: tysk (nn) m.
- Novial: germanum
- Occitan: alemand (oc) m.
- Ojibwe: aanimaamowin
- Old Church Slavonic: нѣ́мьчьскъ ѩꙁꙑ́къ
- Old English: Þēodisce (ang)
- Ottoman Turkish: nemçe
- Pashto: الماني (ps)
- Persian: آلمانی (fa) (almani)
- Polish: niemiecki (pl) m.
- Portuguese: alemão (pt) m.
- Quechua: aliman simi (qu)
- Romani: nyamcicko m.
- Romanian: germană (ro) f., nemțește (ro) (adj)
- Romansch: tudestg (rm)
- Russian: немецкий (ru) (neméckij), немецкий язык (ru) (neméckij jazýk) m.
- Samoan: fa'asiamani (sm)
- Scottish Gaelic: Gearmailtis (gd) f.
- Serbian: немачки (sr) m., nemački (sr) m., њемачки (sr) m., njemački (sr) m.
- Silesian: mjymjecko godka f.
- Sinhalese: ජර්මානු (si) (jarmānū), ජර්මානු භාෂාව (si) (jarmānū bhāṣāva)
- Slovak: nemčina (sk) f.
- Slovene: nemščina (sl) f.
- Sotho: se-jeremane (st)
- Spanish: alemán (es) m.
- Swahili: kijerumani (sw)
- Swati: síJalimáne (ss)
- Swedish: tyska (sv)
- Tagalog: Aleman (tl), Jerman (tl)
- Tajik: забони олмонӣ (tg), олмонӣ (tg) (olmonī)
- Tatar: алман теле (tt) (alman tele)
- Tetum: lia-alemaun
- Thai: ภาษาเยอรมัน (th) (paa-săa yer-rá-man)
- Tok Pisin: tok Siamani (tpi)
- Turkish: Almanca (tr)
- Turkmen: nemes dili (tk)
- Ukrainian: німецька (uk) (niméc'ka) f., німецька мова (uk) (niméc'ka móva) f.
- Upper Sorbian: němska rěč (hsb)
- Urdu: جرمن زبان (ur)
- Vietnamese: tiếng Đức (vi)
- Volapük: Deutänapük (vo)
- Walloon: almand (wa)
- Welsh: Almaeneg (cy)
- West Frisian: Dútsk (fy) n.
- Xhosa: isiJamani (xh)
- Yiddish: דײַטש (yi) (daytsh) n.
- Zazaki: almanki
- Zealandic: duuts
- Zulu: isiJalimani (zu)
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Translations to be checked
- Emiliano-Romagnolo: tedèsch
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܫܢܐ ܓܪܡܢܝܐ
- Bashkir: герман теле
- Bengali: জার্মান ভাষা (bn)
- Bishnupriya Manipuri: জার্মান ঠার
- Chuvash: нимĕç чĕлхи
- Corsican: lingua tedesca (co)
- Crimean Tatar: alman tili
- Friulian: lenghe todescje
- Low German: düütsche Spraak (nds)
- Pennsylvania German: modern Hochdeitsch
- Javanese: basa Jerman (jv)
- Kölsch: Dütsche Sprooch
- Ladino: lingua alemana
- Ligurian: lengua tedesca
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- Lombard: lengua Tudesca
- Malayalam: ജര്മന് ഭാഷ (ml)
- Maori: reo Tiamana (mi)
- Marathi: जर्मन भाषा (mr)
- Mazanderani: آلمانی زبون
- Moksha: германонь кяль
- Neapolitan: lengua germanese
- Ossetian: немыцаг æвзаг
- Piedmontese: lenga tedësca
- Samogitian: vuokītiu kalba
- Sicilian: lingua tudisca (scn)
- Silesian: mjymjecko godka
- Tamil: ஜெர்மன் மொழி (ta)
- Turkmen: nemes dili (tk)
- Venetian: łéngoa todésca
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See also
Adjective
German (comparative more German, superlative most German)
- Of or relating to the country of Germany.
- He is half German, half American.
- Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Germany; to people of German descent.
- Of or relating to the German language.
- We take German classes twice a week.
Synonyms
Translations
of or relating to the country of Germany
- Arabic: ألماني (ar) ('almaaniy)
- Armenian: գերմանական (hy) (germanakan)
- Basque: alemaniar (eu), aleman (eu)
- Belarusian: нямецкі (be) (njamécki)
- Bosnian: njemački (bs) m.
- Breton: alaman, relating to the language : alamanek
- Bulgarian: германски (bg) (germánski) m., немски (bg) (némski)
- Catalan: alemany m.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 德國 (cmn), 德国 (cmn) (Déguó), 德- (cmn) (Dé-)
- Croatian: njèmāčkī (hr)
- Czech: německý (cs) m.
- Danish: tysk (da)
- Dutch: Duits (nl), Duitse (nl)
- Esperanto: germana (eo)
- Finnish: saksalainen (fi)
- French: allemand (fr) m. , allemande (fr) m.
- German: deutsch (de)
- Greek: γερμανικός (el) (germanikós)
- Guaraní: Alemaniagua
- Hindi: जरमन (hi) (jarman)
- Hungarian: német (hu)
- Icelandic: þýskur (is) m.
- Indonesian: Jerman (id)
- Interlingua: german
- Italian: tedesco (it) m.
- Japanese: ドイツの (ja) (Doitsu-no), 独- (ja) (どく-, Doku-)
- Korean: 독일의 (ko) (Dogir-ui)
- Kurdish: elmanî (ku)
- Latin: germanicum (la) n., theodiscum (la) n.
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of or relating to the German people
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- Portuguese: alemão (pt)
- Spanish: alemán (es)
- Volapük: (male or female) Deutänanik (vo), (male) hi-Deutänanik (vo), (female) ji-Deutänanik (vo)
- Yiddish: דײַטש (yi) (daytsh) m.
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of or relating to the German language
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Anagrams
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡěrmaːn/
- Hyphenation: Ger‧man
Proper noun
Gèrmān m. (Cyrillic spelling Гѐрма̄н)
- German (member of a Germanic tribe)
Declension
declension of
German
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singular |
plural |
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German |
Germani |
| genitive |
Germana |
Germana |
| dative |
Germanu |
Germanima |
| accusative |
Germana |
Germane |
| vocative |
Germane |
Germani |
| locative |
Germanu |
Germanima |
| instrumental |
Germanom |
Germanima |
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