Aachener
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Aachener, equal to Aachen + -er.
Noun edit
Aachener (plural Aacheners)
- A native or inhabitant of Aachen, Germany.
- 1972, Charles Whiting, Werewolf: The Story of the Nazi Resistance Movement 1944–1945, London: Leo Cooper Ltd, →ISBN, page 24:
- Von Schwerin arrived in Aachen late on the night of the twelfth, his Army Volkswagen fighting its way through the panic-stricken Aacheners, fleeing from the city which was already burning from the first American shells.
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Aachener m (strong, genitive Aacheners, plural Aachener, feminine Aachenerin)
Declension edit
Declension of Aachener [masculine, strong]
Adjective edit
Aachener (indeclinable, no predicative form)
- (relational) of Aachen
Usage notes edit
- Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted by Duden, DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See -er for more.