Brüderschaft
See also: Bruderschaft
German edit
Etymology edit
From Brüder (“brothers”) + -schaft (“-hood”).
Noun edit
Brüderschaft f (genitive Brüderschaft, plural Brüderschaften)
- brotherhood (the state of being brothers or considering each other as brethren)
- (less common) Alternative form of Bruderschaft (“fraternity”)
- A drink, usually alcoholic, shared (usually between men) to seal a friendship and mark the change from the use of the plural Sie second-person pronoun to the familiar du pronoun
Declension edit
Declension of Brüderschaft [feminine]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | eine | die | Brüderschaft | die | Brüderschaften |
genitive | einer | der | Brüderschaft | der | Brüderschaften |
dative | einer | der | Brüderschaft | den | Brüderschaften |
accusative | eine | die | Brüderschaft | die | Brüderschaften |
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “Brüderschaft” in Duden online