Expedition
See also: expedition and expédition
German edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Latin expedītiō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Expedition f (genitive Expedition, plural Expeditionen)
- expedition
- 2010, Der Spiegel[1], number 5/2010, page 101:
- Ein 20-köpfiges Team von Top-Bergsteigern aus Nepal will sich Ende April auf den Weg in die Gipfelregion des Mount Everest machen, um den Zivilisationsmüll zu beseitigen, den frühere Expeditionen dort hinterlassen haben.
- A team of 20 top mountain climbers from Nepal wants to head to the summit region of Mount Everest at the end of April to clean up the waste of civilization that earlier expeditions have left behind there.
Declension edit
Declension of Expedition [feminine]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | eine | die | Expedition | die | Expeditionen |
genitive | einer | der | Expedition | der | Expeditionen |
dative | einer | der | Expedition | den | Expeditionen |
accusative | eine | die | Expedition | die | Expeditionen |
Descendants edit
- → Russian: экспедиция (ekspedicija)
- → Bulgarian: експеди́ция (ekspedícija)
- → Yakut: экспедиция (ekspeditsiya)
Further reading edit
- “Expedition” in Duden online