Pubertät

See also: pubertat

German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūbertās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pubɛʁˈtɛːt/ (standard; used naturally in western Germany and Switzerland)
• IPA^(key): /pupɛʁˈteːt/ (overall more common; particularly northern and eastern regions)

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Noun

Pubertät f (genitive Pubertät, no plural)

1. puberty (age at which a person becomes capable of sexual reproduction)

Declension

Declension of Pubertät [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Pubertät
genitive	einer	der	Pubertät
dative	einer	der	Pubertät
accusative	eine	die	Pubertät

Related terms

• pubertär

Further reading

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