Tagbau

German

Alternative forms

Tagebau (northern)

Etymology

From Tag (“day”) +‎ Bau (“building, winning, mining”). The first component refers to the (sun-lit) surface of the earth, as in the mining terms unter Tag (“below ground”) and über Tag (“above ground”). The second component is used in the sense of Abbau; compare Raubbau.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtaːɡˌbaʊ̯/

Noun

Tagbau m (strong, genitive Tagbaus or Tagbaues, plural Tagbaue)

(Austria, Bavaria, Southern German, Switzerland) open-pit mining, opencast mining
(Austria, Bavaria, Southern German, Switzerland) open-pit mine

Declension

Declension of Tagbau [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Tagbau	die	Tagbaue
genitive	eines	des	Tagbaus, Tagbaues	der	Tagbaue
dative	einem	dem	Tagbau, Tagbaue¹	den	Tagbauen
accusative	einen	den	Tagbau	die	Tagbaue

¹Now uncommon, see notes.

Antonyms

Untertagbau