Tagebau

German edit

Alternative forms edit

Tagbau (southern)

Etymology edit

From Tag (“day”) +‎ -e- +‎ Bau (“building, winning, mining”). The first component refers to the (sun-lit) surface of the earth, as in the mining terms unter Tage (“below ground”) and über Tage (“above ground”). The second component is used in the sense of Abbau; compare Raubbau.

Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

Tagebau m (strong, genitive Tagebaus or Tagebaues, plural Tagebaue)

Declension edit

Declension of Tagebau [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Tagebau	die	Tagebaue
genitive	eines	des	Tagebaus, Tagebaues	der	Tagebaue
dative	einem	dem	Tagebau, Tagebaue¹	den	Tagebauen
accusative	einen	den	Tagebau	die	Tagebaue

¹Now rare, see notes.

Antonyms edit

Untertagebau