Wiktionary

Wörterbuch

German

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Etymology

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From Wörter (“words”) +‎ Buch (“book”). Cognate with English wordbook, Dutch woordenboek, West Frisian wurdboek, Danish ordbog, Faroese orðabók, Icelandic orðabók, Norwegian Bokmål ordbok , Norwegian Nynorsk ordbok, Swedish ordbok and Volapük vödabuk.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈvœʁtɐˌbuːx/, Northern German IPA(key): [ˈvœɐ̯tɐˌbuːx]
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  • Hyphenation: Wör‧ter‧buch

Noun

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Wörterbuch n (strong, genitive Wörterbuches or Wörterbuchs, plural Wörterbücher, diminutive Wörterbüchlein n)

  1. dictionary (reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, and their definitions or translations)
    Synonyms: Diktionarium, Diktionär, Lexikon, Vokabularium

Declension

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Declension of Wörterbuch [neuter, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein das Wörterbuch die Wörterbücher
genitive eines des Wörterbuches, Wörterbuchs der Wörterbücher
dative einem dem Wörterbuch, Wörterbuche1 den Wörterbüchern
accusative ein das Wörterbuch die Wörterbücher

1Now rare, see notes.

Hyponyms

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Derived terms

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See also

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Further reading

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