Chirurgie

See also: chirurgie and chirurgię

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin chirurgia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /çiʁʊʁˈɡiː/, [çiʁʊɐ̯ˈɡiː]
• (Southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland) IPA^(key): /kirʊrˈɡiː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

Chirurgie f (genitive Chirurgie, plural Chirurgien)

1. (uncountable) surgery (field of study)
2. (informal) the section of a hospital in which surgeries are performed

Declension

Declension of Chirurgie [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Chirurgie	die	Chirurgien
genitive	einer	der	Chirurgie	der	Chirurgien
dative	einer	der	Chirurgie	den	Chirurgien
accusative	eine	die	Chirurgie	die	Chirurgien

Further reading

• “Chirurgie” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Chirurgie” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Chirurgie” in Duden online