Abenteuer

German

Etymology

From Middle High German āventiure, borrowed from Old French aventure and like the latter originally feminine. The neuter gender is from Middle Low German.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈaːbəntɔʏ̯ɐ/, [ˈaːbəntɔʏ̯ɐ], [ˈaːbm̩tɔʏ̯ɐ]
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Hyphenation: Aben‧teu‧er

Noun

Abenteuer n (strong, genitive Abenteuers, plural Abenteuer)

adventure
Synonym: (dated) Aventüre

Declension

Declension of Abenteuer [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Abenteuer	die	Abenteuer
genitive	eines	des	Abenteuers	der	Abenteuer
dative	einem	dem	Abenteuer	den	Abenteuern
accusative	ein	das	Abenteuer	die	Abenteuer

Derived terms

Further reading

“Abenteuer” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“Abenteuer” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
“Abenteuer” in Duden online
Abenteuer on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Abenteuer”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French aventure.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɑbəntɔiər]

Noun

Abenteuer n (plural Abenteuer)

adventure

Further reading

Abenteuer in the Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire

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