Stern – German noun declension

German noun forms of Stern

Noun: Stern
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:

Nominative

Indefinite

Singularein Stern
Plural Sterne

Definite

Singularder Stern
Pluraldie Sterne

Genitive

Indefinite

Singulareines Sternes; Sterns
Plural Sterne

Definite

Singulardes Sternes; Sterns
Pluralder Sterne

Dative

Indefinite

Singulareinem Stern; Sterne
Plural Sternen

Definite

Singulardem Stern; Sterne
Pluralden Sternen

Accusative

Indefinite

Singulareinen Stern
Plural Sterne

Definite

Singularden Stern
Pluraldie Sterne

Sample Sentences

  • 1924, Friedrich Bernhard Störzner, Das weiße Männchen auf dem Kirchberge, in: Reinhardtswalder Sagenbüchlein, Buchhandlung Otto Schmidt, page 11 (Up in the sky the stars sparkled in unusual magnificence.)
  • Und die Sterne gingen mit dem nächtlichen Dunkel, der Morgen graute, […] (And the stars went away with the dark of the night, the morning dawned, […]) [1919, Aleksey Remizov, translated by Arthur Luther, Legenden und Geschichten (fiction), Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, →ISBN:]
  • Morgenstern (morning star)
  • Barnards Stern (Barnard's Star)
  • fünfzackiger Stern (five-pointed star)
  • Davidstern (Star of David)
  • Sternenbanner (stars and stripes)
  • NATO-Stern (NATO star)
  • der rote Stern (the red star)
  • Fünf-Sterne-Hotel (five-star hotel)
  • Bei der Deklaration eines Zeigers kann der Stern (Asterisk) sowohl beim Namen der Variablen (int *zahl) als auch beim Datentyp (int* zahl) stehen. [2007, Klaus M. Rodewig, Amin Negm-Awad, Objective-C und Cocoa: Programmieren unter Apple Mac OS X, 2nd edition, page 83:]
  • ein Schlagerstern(chen) (a schlager-music starlet)

Etymology

1. From Middle High German stërne, from Old High German sterno, from Proto-West Germanic *sternō, from Proto-Germanic *sternǭ, *sternô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.
2. See also Dutch ster (“star”), Old English steorra (“star”) (Modern English star), Danish stjerne (“star”), Swedish stjärna (“star”), Icelandic stjarna (“star”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉 (stairnō); also Latin stēlla (“star”), Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) and Sanskrit तारा (tārā, “star”). Doublet of Aster and Star (“celebrity”). See: Dutch Nouns 'ster', Old English Nouns 'steorra', English Nouns 'star', Danish Nouns 'stjerne', Swedish Nouns 'stjärna', Icelandic Nouns 'stjarna', Gothic Nouns '𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐍉', Latin Nouns 'stēlla', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἀστήρ'.

Verbs referencing "Stern"

English Nouns star, Ancient Greek Nouns ἀστήρ, Danish Nouns stjerne.

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