Talk:Cäsar

Noun genitive

@Benwing2 (Notifying Matthias Buchmeier, -sche, Atitarev, Jberkel, Mahagaja, Fay Freak): : Pretty confused by this; I personally would have thought the noun can have both -s as well -en as its genitive form, but unambiguously attesting the -s can be hard. There are many hits for "eines Cäsars" but that works for the proper noun too. Semantically speaking, it can be hard to differentiate what really is the noun use and what is a use of the proper noun as a simile. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 10:41, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

I agree, so I'll add alternative/rarer strong singular declension for the common noun. In the plural, however, I think the difference is clear: only "Cäsars" or "Cäsar" is used for several persons called "Cäsar" and only "Cäsaren" for the title. 88.64.225.117 05:17, 12 August 2022 (UTC)