Ostberliner

German

Etymology

From Ostberlin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Ostberliner m (strong, genitive Ostberliners, plural Ostberliner, feminine Ostberlinerin)

1. East Berliner

   Antonym: Westberliner

Declension

Declension of Ostberliner [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Ostberliner	die	Ostberliner
genitive	eines	des	Ostberliners	der	Ostberliner
dative	einem	dem	Ostberliner	den	Ostberlinern
accusative	einen	den	Ostberliner	die	Ostberliner

Adjective

Ostberliner (indeclinable, no predicative form)

1. (relational) East Berlin

Usage notes

• Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted by Duden, DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See -er for more.

Further reading

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