Noun: Zahn
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Nominative
Indefinite
| Singular | ein Zahn |
| Plural | Zähne |
Definite
| Singular | der Zahn |
| Plural | die Zähne |
Genitive
Indefinite
| Singular | eines Zahnes; Zahns |
| Plural | Zähne |
Definite
| Singular | des Zahnes; Zahns |
| Plural | der Zähne |
Dative
Indefinite
| Singular | einem Zahn; Zahne |
| Plural | Zähnen |
Definite
| Singular | dem Zahn; Zahne |
| Plural | den Zähnen |
Accusative
Indefinite
| Singular | einen Zahn |
| Plural | Zähne |
Definite
| Singular | den Zahn |
| Plural | die Zähne |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like Zahn
Zahn,
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *h₃dónts
3. Etymology tree
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
5. Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts
7. Proto-Germanic *tanþs
8. Proto-West Germanic *tanþ
9. Old High German zand
10. Middle High German zan
11. German Zahn
12. From Middle High German zan, zant, from Old High German zan, zand, from Proto-West Germanic *tanþ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþs.
13. The Old High German nominative zan alongside zand is not quite clear, but may go back to an inherited variation that was levelled in the other old languages. The stems zan- and zand- were then used indiscriminately in Middle High German. The success of the form without -d may have been reinforced by the widespread dialectal development: intervocalic -nd- → -nn-, which produced d-less inflected forms even in dialects that used zand-. Cognates include Dutch and Danish tand, Low German Tähn, English tooth. See the latter for more. See: Danish Nouns '
tand', English Nouns '
tooth'.
Verbs referencing "Zahn"
English Nouns
tooth, Italian Nouns
zanna, Old English Nouns
toþ, Old Norse Nouns
tǫnn.
Translations