Allerseelen
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌalɐˈzeːlən/
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Noun
Allerseelen n (genitive Allerseelen, plural Allerseelen)
- (especially Roman Catholicism) All Souls' Day
Usage notes
- The holiday is not kept by Protestants in Germany, who instead remember the dead on Totensonntag (Sunday before Advent Sunday).
- The genitive and plural are widely avoided. The genitive could only be used at all with an adjective: des letzten Allerseelen (“of the last All Souls' Day”).
Declension
Declension of Allerseelen
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | das | Allerseelen | die | Allerseelen |
genitive | eines | des | Allerseelen | der | Allerseelen |
dative | einem | dem | Allerseelen | den | Allerseelen |
accusative | ein | das | Allerseelen | die | Allerseelen |
Derived terms
- Allerseelentag
Related terms
- Allerheiligen