Onomatopöie
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See also: onomatopoie
German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Onomatopöie f (genitive Onomatopöie, plural Onomatopöien)
- (rare, specialist) onomatopoeia (the use of language whose sound imitates that which it names; the property of a word of sounding like what it represents; the coining of a word in imitation of a sound)
Usage notes[edit]
- This word will be unintelligible to many, even educated speakers. The usual word in German is Lautmalerei (literally “sound painting”).
Declension[edit]
Declension of Onomatopöie [feminine]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | eine | die | Onomatopöie | die | Onomatopöien |
genitive | einer | der | Onomatopöie | der | Onomatopöien |
dative | einer | der | Onomatopöie | den | Onomatopöien |
accusative | eine | die | Onomatopöie | die | Onomatopöien |
Further reading[edit]
- “Onomatopöie” in Duden online