Countdown

See also: countdown, count-down, and count down

German

Alternative forms

• Count-down

Etymology

Borrowed from English countdown, from count +‎ down.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaʊ̯ntˌdaʊ̯n]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Count‧down

Noun

Countdown m (strong, genitive Countdowns, plural Countdowns)

1. A countdown, count(ing) backward to the (starting) time of some event
   • 1982, Peter Schilling (lyrics and music), “Major Tom (Völlig losgelöst)”, in Major Tom (Völlig losgelöst) [All Versions]:

     Der Countdown läuft

     The countdown starts

Declension

Declension of Countdown [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Countdown	die	Countdowns
genitive	eines	des	Countdowns	der	Countdowns
dative	einem	dem	Countdown	den	Countdowns
accusative	einen	den	Countdown	die	Countdowns

Further reading

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