Ding

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Etymology [edit]

From Old High German ding, from Proto-Germanic *þingą. Compare Low German ding, Dutch ding, English thing, Danish ting.

Noun [edit]

Ding n (genitive Dinges or Dings, plural Dinge or Dinger)

  1. thing
  2. Thing

Usage notes [edit]

The normal plural is Dinge. The second plural Dinger is used chiefly in colloquial speech and usually only for tangible things, not for abstracta.

The plural is always Dinger where Ding means "young girl or (more rarely) boy except in colloquial terms such as junge Dinger, (literally: "young things"), hübsche Dinger ("pretty things") and the like.

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