Emmentaler

English

Emmental Swiss cheese

Alternative forms

• Emmental
• Emmenthal
• Emmenthaler

Etymology

Alemannic German Emmentaler, from Emmental, a valley in Switzerland.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmənˌtɑlɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmənˌtɑːlə/
• Hyphenation: Em‧men‧ta‧ler

Proper noun

Emmentaler

1. A Swiss cheese with many holes.

Synonyms

• Swiss cheese (informal)

Translations

Swiss cheese

• Czech: ementál (cs) m
• Finnish: emmental (fi), emmentaljuusto
• Georgian: ემენტალი (emenṭali)
• German: Emmentaler (de) m

  Alemannic German: Ämmedaaler

• Greek: Έμενταλ (Émental)
• Hungarian: ementáli (hu)
• Polish: ementaler (pl) m
• Portuguese: emmenthal (pt) m, emmental m
• Russian: эммента́ль (ru) m (emmentálʹ)

See also

• Gruyère

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛmənˌtaːlɐ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Em‧men‧ta‧ler

Noun

Emmentaler m (strong, genitive Emmentalers, plural Emmentaler)

1. Emmentaler

Declension

Declension of Emmentaler [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Emmentaler	die	Emmentaler
genitive	eines	des	Emmentalers	der	Emmentaler
dative	einem	dem	Emmentaler	den	Emmentalern
accusative	einen	den	Emmentaler	die	Emmentaler

Further reading

• “Emmentaler” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache