Brüderschaft

See also: Bruderschaft

German

Etymology

From Brüder (“brothers”) +‎ -schaft (“-hood”).

Noun

Brüderschaft f (genitive Brüderschaft, plural Brüderschaften)

  1. brotherhood (the state of being brothers or considering each other as brethren)
  2. (less common) Alternative form of Bruderschaft (“fraternity”)
  3. A drink, usually alcoholic, shared (usually between men) to seal a friendship and mark the change from the use of the plural Sie second-person pronoun to the familiar du pronoun

Declension
Declension of Brüderschaft [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Brüderschaft die Brüderschaften
genitive einer der Brüderschaft der Brüderschaften
dative einer der Brüderschaft den Brüderschaften
accusative eine die Brüderschaft die Brüderschaften

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