Plunder
See also: plunder and plünder
German
Etymology
From Middle High German plunder (“household furniture, clothes, linen”). Cognate with Middle Low German plunde (“clothing”), Dutch plunderen (“to plunder”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈplʊndɐ/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Plun‧der
Noun
Plunder m (mixed, genitive Plunders, plural Plundern)
- (uncountable) junk, rubbish
- Synonyms: Kram, Krempel, Trödel; see also Thesaurus:Zeug
- (countable) Danish pastry
- Synonyms: Plundergebäck, Teilchen
Declension
Declension of Plunder [masculine, mixed]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | der | Plunder | die | Plundern |
genitive | eines | des | Plunders | der | Plundern |
dative | einem | dem | Plunder | den | Plundern |
accusative | einen | den | Plunder | die | Plundern |
References
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Plunder”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Further reading
- “Plunder” in Duden online