-schaft

See also: schaft and Schaft

German

Etymology

Middle High German -schaft, from Old High German -skaft, -skaf, from Proto-West Germanic *-skapi.

Cognate with Dutch -schap, Swedish -skap, English -ship, Danish -skab, West Frisian -skip. Final -t possibly from Proto-Germanic *-þiz, as seen in *gaskaftiz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃaft/, [ʃäft]
Audio: (file)
Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file)

Suffix

-schaft f (genitive -schaft, plural -schaften)

-ship, -hood
‎Eltern (“parents”) + ‎-schaft → ‎Elternschaft (“parenthood”)

‎Graf (“count”) + ‎-schaft → ‎Grafschaft (“county”)

Declension

Declension of -schaft [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	-schaft	die	-schaften
genitive	einer	der	-schaft	der	-schaften
dative	einer	der	-schaft	den	-schaften
accusative	eine	die	-schaft	die	-schaften

Derived terms

German terms suffixed with -schaft

Doppelstaatsbürgerschaft

German

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Pronunciation

Suffix

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Derived terms

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