Kapital
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian capitale (“(economic) capital”), from Latin capitālis.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Kapital n (strong, genitive Kapitals or (rare) Kapitales, plural (rare) Kapitale or Kapitalien)
- (economics, Marxism, rarely in the plural) capital
- 1894, Karl Marx, edited by Friedrich Engels, Das Kapital […] , III: Der Gesammtprocess der kapitalistischen Produktion, Hamburg: Otto Meissner, page 1:
- In ihrer wirklichen Bewegung treten sich die Kapitale in solchen konkreten Formen gegenüber, für die die Gestalt des Kapitals im unmittelbaren Productionsprocess, wie seine Gestalt im Cirkulationsprocess, nur als besondere Momente erscheinen.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (East Germany, only singular) capitalists collectively
Declension edit
Declension of Kapital [neuter, strong]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | das | Kapital | die | Kapitale1, Kapitalien1 |
genitive | eines | des | Kapitals, Kapitales1 | der | Kapitale1, Kapitalien1 |
dative | einem | dem | Kapital, Kapitale1,2 | den | Kapitalen1, Kapitalien1 |
accusative | ein | das | Kapital | die | Kapitale1, Kapitalien1 |
1Rare.
2Now rare, see notes.
Derived terms edit
Compound nouns ending with -kapital
Compound nouns beginning with Kapital-
Descendants edit
- → Yiddish: קאַפּיטאַל (kapital)
Further reading edit
- “Kapital” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Kapital” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Kapital” in Duden online
- Kapital on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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Noun edit
Kapital m
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