Noun: Keks
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Nominative
Indefinite
| Singular | ein Keks |
| Plural | Kekse |
Definite
| Singular | das Keks |
| Plural | die Kekse |
Genitive
Indefinite
| Singular | eines Kekses |
| Plural | Kekse |
Definite
| Singular | des Kekses |
| Plural | der Kekse |
Dative
Indefinite
| Singular | einem Keks; Kekse |
| Plural | Keksen |
Definite
| Singular | dem Keks; Kekse |
| Plural | den Keksen |
Accusative
Indefinite
| Singular | ein Keks |
| Plural | Kekse |
Definite
| Singular | das Keks |
| Plural | die Kekse |
Sample Sentences
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Da sitzt leibhaftig Schillers Schwester: eine rötliche Blondine, noch ganz jung, die vor mir aus dem Fenster guckt und einen Keks zerbeißt. (Schiller’s sister incarnate is sitting there: a strawberry blonde, still very young, looking out of the window in front of me and biting into a cookie.) [1924, Theodor Birt, Auf Reisen: ein Ferienbuch, page 101:]
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Immer breitere Publikumsschichten gehen zum Konsum der Fabrikskekssorten über, die qualitativ besser und billiger sind, als die im Privathaushalt hergestellten Kekse. (Ever broader classes of the public are going over to the consumption of factory-made cookie types that are qualitatively better and cheaper than cookies made in private homes.) [1935, Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Ungarns Handel und Industrie im Jahre 1935, page 123:]
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1968, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Getreideforschung, Brot und Gebäck, volumes 22-24, p. 45 (In reality, however, the atmospheric conditions in the oven, to the extent they can be known at all, do not directly determine the baking development of the bread or cookie.)
Nouns inflected like Keks
Kruzifix,
Alltagsstress,
Schauprozess,
Schokoladekeks,
Stichtag,
Längenkreis,
Ammoniumsalz,
Vogelschiss,
Speiseröhrenkrebs,
Zahnschutz,
Spritpreis,
Flachkopfwels,
Bienenwachs,
Flüssiggas,
Strafprozess,
Markträumungspreis,
Selensalz,
Raummass,
Rauhputz,
Identitätsnachweis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from English cakes, 1900s. Popularized by German food company Bahlsen which changed the brand name of their biscuits from Leibniz-Cakes to Leibniz-Keks in 1911; at the time, the plural was also Keks. Compare Danish kiks, Estonian keeks, Faroese keks, Finnish keksi, Icelandic kex, Norwegian kjeks, and Swedish kex, all ‘cookie, biscuit, cracker’. See: Danish Nouns '
kiks', Faroese Nouns '
keks', Finnish Nouns '
keksi', Icelandic Nouns '
kex', Swedish Nouns '
kex'.
Verbs referencing "Keks"
Czech Nouns
keks, Polish Nouns
keks, Hungarian Nouns
keksz, Belarusan Nouns
кекс, Russian Nouns
кекс.
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