Spieß – German noun declension

German noun forms of Spieß

Noun: Spieß
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:

Nominative

Indefinite

Singularein Spieß
Plural Spieße

Definite

Singularder Spieß
Pluraldie Spieße

Genitive

Indefinite

Singulareines Spießes
Plural Spieße

Definite

Singulardes Spießes
Pluralder Spieße

Dative

Indefinite

Singulareinem Spieß; Spieße
Plural Spießen

Definite

Singulardem Spieß; Spieße
Pluralden Spießen

Accusative

Indefinite

Singulareinen Spieß
Plural Spieße

Definite

Singularden Spieß
Pluraldie Spieße

Sample Sentences

  • Heute Abend grillen wir Krabben am Spieß. (Tonight we’ll grill crabs on the spit.)
  • Er griff sich einen Zaunpfahl und verwendete ihn als Spieß. (He grabbed himself a fence post and used it as a pike.)
  • Luther Bible, Jesaja 2:4 (and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.)
  • Durch einen Spieß setzte er den gegnerischen König ins Schach. (With a skewer he put the opponent’s king in check.)

Etymology

1. From Middle High German spiez (“pike”), from Old High German spioz, from Proto-West Germanic *speut (“spear”). Cognate with Middle Dutch spiet, Old Saxon spiot.
2. Merged semantically with Middle High German spiz (“spit”), from Old High German spiz, from Proto-Germanic *spituz. Cognate with Dutch spit, English spit, Swedish spett. Etymological relation between the two merged words is possible, but uncertain. See: Dutch Nouns 'spit', English Nouns 'spit', Swedish Nouns 'spett'.

Verbs referencing "Spieß"

English Nouns spud, Old English Nouns spitu, Polish Nouns spisa, Ukrainian Nouns спис, French Nouns épieu, German Nouns Spätzle.

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