Hirsch – German noun declension

German noun forms of Hirsch

Noun: Hirsch
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:

Nominative

Indefinite

Singularein Hirsch
Plural Hirsche; Hirschen

Definite

Singularder Hirsch
Pluraldie Hirsche; Hirschen

Genitive

Indefinite

Singulareines Hirsches; Hirschs; Hirschen
Plural Hirsche; Hirschen

Definite

Singulardes Hirsches; Hirschs; Hirschen
Pluralder Hirsche; Hirschen

Dative

Indefinite

Singulareinem Hirsch; Hirsche; Hirschen
Plural Hirschen

Definite

Singulardem Hirsch; Hirsche; Hirschen
Pluralden Hirschen

Accusative

Indefinite

Singulareinen Hirsch; Hirschen
Plural Hirsche; Hirschen

Definite

Singularden Hirsch; Hirschen
Pluraldie Hirsche; Hirschen

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like Hirsch

Drost, Legat, Rhomboid, Mond, Hirsch, Aar, Tor,

Etymology

1. From Middle High German hirs, from older hirʐ(e), from Old High German hiruz, from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz. Cognate with Dutch hert, English hart.
2. When the Old High German -u- was lost by syncope (in inflected forms), the fricative /s̄/ came to stand after a consonant, which regularly it never did. This anomaly was then removed by replacing /s̄/ either with /s̠/ (spelt ⟨s⟩) or with the affricate /t͡s/ (cf. Luxembourgish Hierz). In the former case, the cluster /rs̠/ was regularly shifted further to /rʃ/ (cf. Kirsche etc.). See: Dutch Nouns 'hert', English Nouns 'hart'.

Verbs referencing "Hirsch"

English Nouns hart, Danish Nouns hjort.

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