Abnabelung

German

Alternative forms

• Abnablung (rare)

Etymology

abnabeln +‎ -ung

Pronunciation

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Noun

Abnabelung f (genitive Abnabelung, plural Abnabelungen)

1. (medicine) an act of cutting the umbilical cord
2. (figurative) an act of becoming independent from another person

Declension

Declension of Abnabelung [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Abnabelung	die	Abnabelungen
genitive	einer	der	Abnabelung	der	Abnabelungen
dative	einer	der	Abnabelung	den	Abnabelungen
accusative	eine	die	Abnabelung	die	Abnabelungen

Further reading

• Abnabelung on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Abnabelung” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Abnabelung” in Duden online
• “Abnabelung” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon