Zitatwort

German

Etymology

Zitat +‎ Wort

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɪˈtaːtˌvɔʁt/
• Hyphenation: Zi‧tat‧wort

• Audio

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Noun

Zitatwort n (strong, genitive Zitatwortes or Zitatworts, plural Zitatwörter)

1. (linguistics) foreign word, used to designate foreign objects or concepts
2. (linguistics) foreign word, whose spelling, flexion, pronunciation, etc. is unadapted to the target language

Declension

Declension of Zitatwort [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Zitatwort	die	Zitatwörter
genitive	eines	des	Zitatwortes, Zitatworts	der	Zitatwörter
dative	einem	dem	Zitatwort, Zitatworte1	den	Zitatwörtern
accusative	ein	das	Zitatwort	die	Zitatwörter

¹Now rare, see notes.

Further reading

• “Zitatwort” in Duden online