Coming-out

See also: Comingout, coming-out, and coming out

German

Alternative forms

• Comingout

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English coming out.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkamɪŋˈʔaʊ̯t/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Co‧ming‧-out

Noun

Coming-out n (strong, genitive Coming-outs or Coming-out, plural Coming-outs)

1. (LGBT) coming out of the closet

Declension

Declension of Coming-out [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Coming-out	die	Coming-outs
genitive	eines	des	Coming-outs, Coming-out	der	Coming-outs
dative	einem	dem	Coming-out	den	Coming-outs
accusative	ein	das	Coming-out	die	Coming-outs

Further reading

• “Coming-out” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Coming-out” in Duden online
• “Coming-out”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
• “Coming-out” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon