Bundeskriminalamt
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Bundeskriminalamt.
Proper noun edit
Bundeskriminalamt
- The German federal office of criminal investigations.
- 1988 April 2, Lori Kenschaft, “German feminists rounded up”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
- Thirty-three simultaneous raids by the Bundeskriminalamt - the German equivalent of the FBI - targeted feminist activists who have researched and spoken out against reproductive and genetic engineering.
German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Bund + -es- + Kriminalamt.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Bundeskriminalamt n (strong, genitive Bundeskriminalamtes or Bundeskriminalamts, plural Bundeskriminalämter)
Declension edit
Declension of Bundeskriminalamt [neuter, strong]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | das | Bundeskriminalamt | die | Bundeskriminalämter |
genitive | eines | des | Bundeskriminalamtes, Bundeskriminalamts | der | Bundeskriminalämter |
dative | einem | dem | Bundeskriminalamt, Bundeskriminalamte1 | den | Bundeskriminalämtern |
accusative | ein | das | Bundeskriminalamt | die | Bundeskriminalämter |
1Now rare, see notes.
Further reading edit
- “Bundeskriminalamt” in Duden online
- “Bundeskriminalamt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Bundeskriminalamt” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- Bundeskriminalamt on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de