Abend
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German [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old High German āband, Proto-Germanic *ēbandaz from Proto-Indo-European *epi (“after, behind”) > “last part of the day”, compare Dutch avond, English even, Old Norse aptann, Swedish afton, Norwegian and Danish aften.
Noun [edit]
Abend m (genitive Abends, plural Abende)
- evening; the time from dusk onwards, colloquially including the first hours of the night
- heute Abend — “this evening”
- gestern Abend — “last evening”
- morgen Abend — “tomorrow evening”
- Guten Abend! — “Good evening!”
- 1996 April 30, Patrick Conley, “Die vergessene Tradition”, SFB3:
- Es ist Abend, und vor den Fenstern ihres Wohnzimmers liegt der Central Park in tiefes Dunkel gehüllt.
- eve, the day before
- Heiligabend, der Heilige Abend (24. Dezember) — “Holy Night, Christmas Eve (24 December)”
- Sonnabend, der Tag vor Sonntag — “Saturday, the day before Sunday”
- 1998 November 21, Werner Schmidt, “Flucht mit geschnitzten Plastikschlüsseln”, Tagesspiegel:
- Serow behauptete, er sei am Sonnabend regulär in seine Zelle eingeschlossen worden.
- The west (poetic, Martin Luther)
Declension [edit]
declension of Abend
