Deutscher

See also: deutscher

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Deutscher.

Proper noun

Deutscher (plural Deutschers)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Deutscher is the 31482^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 735 individuals. Deutscher is most common among White (95.78%) individuals.

Noun

Deutscher (plural Deutschers)

1. (rare) A German man.
   • 1875 October, George Augustus Sala, “Wills and Bequests: Not from the ‘Illustrated London News’”, in M[ary] E[lizabeth] Braddon, editor, Belgravia: A London Magazine, volume VII, third series; XXVII, first series, London: Office: […], page 331:

     He left […] 10,000 dollars to the Lieber Vaterland association for defraying the fines of Deutschers prosecuted for ‘schlogging the kops’ of Irishmen.

   • 1876, Oswald Allan, Worthy a Crown?, London: Head and Meek, […], page 13, column 2:

     […] While two Deutschers say, “You’d better surrender to us ’tis true!”

   • 1877, “Hans and Fritz”, in Appletons’ Journal: A Monthly Miscellany of Popular Literature, volume II, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], page 472, column 1:

     HANS and Fritz were two Deutschers who lived side by side, / Remote from the world, its deceit and its pride; / With their pretzels and beer the spare moments were spent, / And the fruits of their labor were peace and content.

   • 1910 August 27, Charles Ernest Scott, ““The Apostle of Shantung””, in The Sunday School Times, volume fifty-two, number 35, Philadelphia, Pa., page 423, column 1:

     ‘Then, to show their contempt for Boxers and Boxer-sympathizing cities—and in their daring lay their safety—a handful of these doughty Deutschers chose to enter the city, not through the big jagged hole they had made, but to scale those grim, sheer walls.

   • 1934, Maxwell Anderson, “Valley Forge”, in Eleven Verse Plays, Harcourt, Brace and Company by arrangement with Anderson House, published 1939, page 87:

     A couple of Deutschers been making sausage all night.

   • a. 1968, James Max Henderson, Memoirs of a Mouse, published 2003, →ISBN, page 24:

     Our cornet and trombone players, a couple of Deutschers known as “Gussie”’ and “Goosie,” took their music seriously and helped to cover my lousy fiddling while I was still learning that “der black notes ist der music, and der vite ist der paper” (as Gussie informed me).

   • 1978, James Leasor, Boarding Party, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1979, →ISBN, page 183:

     ‘Maybe they’re a couple of Deutschers who can’t swim,’ suggested Red Mac.

See also

• Deutscher Wachtelhund

 

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Deutscher”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 451.

German

Etymology

Nominalization of deutsch (“German”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɪ̯t͡ʃɐ/

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Noun

Deutscher m (adjectival, definite nominative der Deutsche, genitive (des) Deutschen, plural Deutsche, definite plural die Deutschen, feminine Deutsche)

1. German (male or of unspecified gender)

   Sind Sie Deutscher? (formal, to a man) ― Are you German?

   Bist du Deutscher? (informal, to a man or a boy) ― Are you German?

   Seid ihr Deutsche? (informal, to a group of people) ― Are you Germans?

   Ich bin Deutscher. ― I'm German.

   Wir sind Deutsche. ― We are Germans.

   wir Deutsche; wir Deutschen ― we Germans

   Deutsche beiderlei Geschlechts ― male and female Germans

Declension

Declension of Deutscher [masculine, adjectival]

	singular		plural
masculine gender	strong declension
nominative	Deutscher		Deutsche
genitive	Deutschen		Deutscher
dative	Deutschem		Deutschen
accusative	Deutschen		Deutsche
	weak declension
nominative	der	Deutsche	die	Deutschen
genitive	des	Deutschen	der	Deutschen
dative	dem	Deutschen	den	Deutschen
accusative	den	Deutschen	die	Deutschen
	mixed declension
nominative	ein	Deutscher	(keine)	Deutschen
genitive	eines	Deutschen	(keiner)	Deutschen
dative	einem	Deutschen	(keinen)	Deutschen
accusative	einen	Deutschen	(keine)	Deutschen

Hypernyms

• Mitteleuropäer

Hyponyms

• Auslandsdeutscher
• Bessarabiendeutscher
• Bukowinadeutscher
• Hochdeutscher
• Reichsdeutscher
• Russlanddeutscher, Rußlanddeutscher
• Südafrikadeutscher
• Sudetendeutscher
• Ukrainedeutscher
• Volksdeutscher
• Wolhyniendeutscher

 

• Baden-Württemberger
• Bayer
• Berliner
• Brandenburger
• Hesse
• Nordrhein-Westfale
• Rheinland-Pfälzer
• Sachse
• Sachsen-Anhalter
• Schlesier
• Schleswig-Holsteiner
• Schwabe
• Thüringer
• Westfale

 

Related terms

• deutsch (adjective)
• Deutsch (noun)
• Hochdeutscher

Noun

Deutscher f

1. inflection of Deutsche:
   1. strong genitive/dative singular
   2. strong genitive plural

Further reading

• “Deutscher” in Duden online
• “Deutscher” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache