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Bremer

Translingual

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Bremer

  1. A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Hans Bremer (fl. 1947).

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Bremer, equivalent to Brem(en) +‎ -er.

Noun

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Bremer (plural Bremers)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Bremen, Germany.
    • 2009, Lynn K. Nyhart, “Biological Groups, Nature, and Culture in the Museum”, in Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 258:
      Tobacco, cotton, and sugar from the tropics were all imported in raw form and turned into cigars, cloth, and processed sugar in Bremen and its surrounding villages. Bremers sought to promote their city's role as a business center based on imports.

Proper noun

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Bremer

  1. A habitational surname from German.

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German

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Etymology

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From Bremen +‎ -er. The ending -en is sometimes lost before the suffix -er without there being a clear rule (compare -hausen, which makes -häuser or -hausener). The use for a sandwich is a pun on Hamburger.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbʁeːmɐ/
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Noun

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Bremer m (strong, genitive Bremers, plural Bremer, feminine Bremerin)

  1. Bremer (person)
  2. fishburger, a sandwich filled with a fishcake
    Synonym: Fischfrikadellenbrötchen

Declension

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Declension of Bremer [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Bremer die Bremer
genitive eines des Bremers der Bremer
dative einem dem Bremer den Bremern
accusative einen den Bremer die Bremer

Adjective

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Bremer (indeclinable, no predicative form)

  1. (relational) of Bremen

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