Familienstatus

German

Etymology

Familie (“family”) +‎ Status (“state, status”). Possibly, it is a calque of English family status (“position within the family”). The sense “marital status” would then have developed by interpreting the word as synonymous with Familienstand (“marital status”, literally “family state”).

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Noun

Familienstatus m (strong, genitive Familienstatus, plural Familienstatus or Familienstatusse)

1. (sociology) family status (one’s position within the family, e.g. adult child living outside of the parental home, etc.)
2. (sociology) marital status (the fact of one’s being unmarried, married, divorced, or widowed); outside of official use sometimes including information about children, unmarried life partners, etc.

   Synonym: (more common) Familienstand

Declension

Declension of Familienstatus [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Familienstatus	die	Familienstatus, Familienstatusse
genitive	eines	des	Familienstatus	der	Familienstatus, Familienstatusse
dative	einem	dem	Familienstatus	den	Familienstatus, Familienstatussen
accusative	einen	den	Familienstatus	die	Familienstatus, Familienstatusse