Bendlerblock

German edit

Etymology edit

From Bendler +‎ Block, from its location on Bendlerstraße (now Stauffenbergstraße ), named after local politician Johann Christoph Bendler (1789–1873).

Pronunciation edit

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Proper noun edit

Bendlerblock m (proper noun, strong, genitive Bendlerblocks)

A building complex in the Tiergarten district of Berlin, Germany.
(informal, metonymically, German politics) the Federal Ministry of Defence
- 2023 January 16, Sebastian Huld, “Lambrecht wählt das Ende mit Schrecken”, in NTV‎^[1]:
  Selbstkritische Töne waren unmittelbar nicht zu vernehmen aus dem Bendlerblock, den Lambrecht in denkbar bewegten Zeiten verlassen wird.
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Declension edit

Declension of Bendlerblock [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Bendlerblock
genitive	eines	des	Bendlerblocks
dative	einem	dem	Bendlerblock
accusative	einen	den	Bendlerblock