Noun: Sprosse
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Nominative
Indefinite
| Singular | eine Sprosse |
| Plural | Sprossen |
Definite
| Singular | die Sprosse |
| Plural | die Sprossen |
Genitive
Indefinite
| Singular | einer Sprosse |
| Plural | Sprossen |
Definite
| Singular | der Sprosse |
| Plural | der Sprossen |
Dative
Indefinite
| Singular | einer Sprosse |
| Plural | Sprossen |
Definite
| Singular | der Sprosse |
| Plural | den Sprossen |
Accusative
Indefinite
| Singular | eine Sprosse |
| Plural | Sprossen |
Definite
| Singular | die Sprosse |
| Plural | die Sprossen |
Sample Sentences
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Die Leiter hat sechs Sprossen. (The ladder has six rungs.)
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Wenn Kartoffeln länger gelagert werden, bilden sich oft Sprossen. (When potatoes are stored for longer periods of time, they often form sprouts.)
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Warum liegt hier eine Sojasprosse auf dem Boden? (Why is there a soybean sprout lying on the ground?)
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Wenn ich bei gutem Wetter draußen bin, kriege ich sofort Sprossen im Gesicht. (Whenever I go outside in good weather, I immediately get freckles on my face.)
Nouns inflected like Sprosse
Teetasse,
Hemmschwelle,
Türangel,
Entspannungspause,
Umgehungsstraße,
Schuppenflechte,
Glasplatte,
Türfalle,
Teestube,
Drossel,
Biosynthese,
Briefklammer,
Bandbrasse,
Bandbreite,
Eisscholle,
Bauweise,
Umhängetasche,
Schwester,
K-Frage,
Abflughalle, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle High German sprozze m, from Old High German sprozzo (“rung”), from Proto-Germanic *sprutô, from the root of *spreutaną, whence sprießen. Cognate with Dutch sport (“rung”), Middle Low German sprōte (“rung, sprout”), Old English sprot(a) (“sprout”). The sense “sprout” seems to be original, but is not attested in High German before the 15th century. Doublet of Spross, which compare.
2. The sense “freckle” (17th c., at first also in the form sprusse) is a semantic loan from Middle Low German sprûte (literally “sprout”), an ablaut variant of the above noun. Cognate with Dutch spruit (“sprout”) and sproet (“freckle”), English sprout. See: Dutch Nouns '
sport', Old English Nouns '
sprot', Dutch Nouns '
spruit', English Nouns '
sprout'.
Verbs referencing "Sprosse"
Czech Nouns
šprušle, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
sprosse, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
sprosse.
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