Noun: Zunge
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Nominative
Indefinite
| Singular | eine Zunge |
| Plural | Zungen |
Definite
| Singular | die Zunge |
| Plural | die Zungen |
Genitive
Indefinite
| Singular | einer Zunge |
| Plural | Zungen |
Definite
| Singular | der Zunge |
| Plural | der Zungen |
Dative
Indefinite
| Singular | einer Zunge |
| Plural | Zungen |
Definite
| Singular | der Zunge |
| Plural | den Zungen |
Accusative
Indefinite
| Singular | eine Zunge |
| Plural | Zungen |
Definite
| Singular | die Zunge |
| Plural | die Zungen |
Sample Sentences
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Menschen anderer Zunge (foreigners)
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in Zungen reden (to speak in tongues)
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1892, Hermann Jellinghaus, Forschungen. Herausgegeben vom Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung. Band V. — Die niederländischen Volksmundarten. Nach den Aufzeichnungen der Niederländer von Hermann Jellinghaus, Diedr. Soltau's Verlag: Norden & Leipzig, p. 17 ((please add an English translation of this quotation))
Nouns inflected like Zunge
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 zunge, from Old High German zunga, from Proto-West Germanic *tungā, from Proto-Germanic *tungǭ; from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”).
2. Germanic Cognates include Old Saxon tunga, Low German Tung, Old Dutch tunga, Dutch tong, Old English tunge (Modern English tongue), West Frisian tonge, Old Norse tunga (> Swedish tunga, Faroese tunga, Norwegian tunge, Swedish tunga, Danish tunge) and Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō).
3. Non-Germanic-Cognates with identical meaning include Irish teanga, Welsh tafod, Latin lingua (> Portuguese língua, Spanish lengua, Catalan llengua, French langue, Italian lingua, Romanian limbă), Armenian լեզու (lezu), Lithuanian liežùvis, Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā́), Persian زبان (zabân), Proto-Slavic *ęzykъ (> Czech jazyk, Polish język, Russian язы́к (jazýk), Serbo-Croatian јѐзик, Bulgarian ези́к (ezík)). See: Dutch Nouns '
tong', Old English Nouns '
tunge', English Nouns '
tongue', Old Norse Nouns '
tunga', Swedish Nouns '
tunga', Faroese Nouns '
tunga', Swedish Nouns '
tunga', Danish Nouns '
tunge', Gothic Nouns '
𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉', Irish Nouns '
teanga', Latin Nouns '
lingua', Portuguese Nouns '
língua', Spanish Nouns '
lengua', Catalan Nouns '
llengua', French Nouns '
langue', Italian Nouns '
lingua', Romanian Nouns '
limbă', Czech Nouns '
jazyk', Polish Nouns '
język', Bulgarian Nouns '
ези́к'.
Verbs referencing "Zunge"
English Nouns
tongue, Latin Nouns
lingua, Danish Nouns
tunge, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
tunge, English Nouns
tung.
Translations