Prozent
German edit
Alternative forms edit
- Perzent
- Percent, per Centum, per Cento (obsolete)
- Procent, pro Cent, pro Centum, pro Cento, pro cento (obsolete)
- Prct., pCt., prCt. (abbreviation, obsolete)
- %
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian per cento, from Latin per (“through, by”) and centum (“hundred”), modified by the influence of Latin pro (“for”) or German pro.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Prozent n (strong, genitive Prozentes or Prozents, plural Prozente)
- percent
- Synonyms: Hundertstel, vom Hundert, von Hundert
- 2010, Der Spiegel[1], number 2/2010, page 125:
- Kohlendioxid trägt durch seine Menge mehr als jedes andere Treibhausgas zum Klimawandel bei, doch seine Konzentration in der Luft beträgt weniger als 0,04 Prozent.
- Carbon dioxide contributes by its amount more than any other greenhouse gas to climate change, but its concentration in the air is less than 0.04 percent.
Usage notes edit
The plural Prozente is only used to mean different percent values or percentages: „Was sind die genauen Prozente für A und B?“ "What are the exact percentages of A and B?" Otherwise, like in English, the singular is used: fünfzig Prozent "fifty percent".
Declension edit
Declension of Prozent [neuter, strong]
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Polish: procent
- → Silesian: procynt
- → Russian: проце́нт (procént)
- → Yakut: бырыһыан (bırıhıan)
- → Serbo-Croatian: про̀цент
Further reading edit
- “Prozent” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Prozent” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Prozent” in Duden online
- Prozent on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Hunsrik edit
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Noun edit
Prozent m