Plane

See also: plane, plané, plañe, pláne, pláně, and Pläne

German

Etymology

East Central German secondary formation of Blahe (“tarpaulin”), from Middle High German blahe, from Old High German blaha, from Proto-Germanic *blahwo, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlok-, see also Icelandic blæja (“veil”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

Plane f (genitive Plane, plural Planen)

1. tarpaulin
2. awning

Declension

Declension of Plane [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Plane	die	Planen
genitive	einer	der	Plane	der	Planen
dative	einer	der	Plane	den	Planen
accusative	eine	die	Plane	die	Planen

Synonyms

• Abdeckplane
• Wagenplane
• Zeltplane

Further reading

• “Plane” in Duden online
• “Plane” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache