Brass

See also: brass and bräss

German

Alternative forms

• Braß (superseded)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German bras (“din, racket”), related to prassen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bʁas]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -as

Noun

Brass m (strong, genitive Brasses, no plural)

1. (colloquial, regional) anger, outrage

Usage notes

• The spelling Brass has been the prescribed spelling since the German spelling reform of 1996 (the Rechtschreibreform). In Switzerland and Liechtenstein, it had already been standard since ⟨ß⟩ was deprecated in the 1930s. In the affected areas, the previous spelling (Braß) is now less common, and may be regarded as a misspelling.

Declension

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

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Brass
genitive	eines	des	Brasses
dative	einem	dem	Brass, Brasse1
accusative	einen	den	Brass

¹Now rare, see notes.

Further reading

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