Protest

See also: protest

German

Etymology

From Italian protesto. Originally used in a merchant context, such as in refusing a bill of exchange. The modern usage was influenced by protestieren.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pʁoˈtɛst]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

Protest m (strong, genitive Protestes or Protests, plural Proteste)

1. protest

Declension

Declension of Protest [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Protest	die	Proteste
genitive	eines	des	Protestes, Protests	der	Proteste
dative	einem	dem	Protest, Proteste1	den	Protesten
accusative	einen	den	Protest	die	Proteste

¹Now rare, see notes.

Related terms

• protestieren

Further reading

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