Abend
German
Etymology
From Old High German āband, from Proto-Germanic *ēbanþs, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *epi (“after, behind”) → “last part of the day”; compare Low German Avend, Dutch avond, English even (evening), Old Norse aptann, Swedish afton, Norwegian and Danish aften. Compare English eve.
Pronunciation
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Noun
Abend m (genitive Abends, plural Abende)
- evening; the time from dusk onwards (unlike in English, now generally including the first hours of the night, until midnight)
- 1895, Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest, Kapitel 24
- Mit Beginn der nächsten Woche brach man denn auch wirklich auf, und am selben Abend noch war man in Saßnitz. Über dem Gasthaus stand »Hotel Fahrenheit«. »Die Preise hoffentlich nach Réaumur«, setzte Innstetten, als er den Namen las, hinzu, und in bester Laune machten beide noch einen Abendspaziergang an dem Klippenstrand hin und sahen von einem Felsenvorsprung aus auf die stille, vom Mondschein überzitterte Bucht. Effi war entzückt.
- 1996 April 30, Patrick Conley, “Die vergessene Tradition”, in SFB3[1]:
- Es ist Abend, und vor den Fenstern ihres Wohnzimmers liegt der Central Park in tiefes Dunkel gehüllt.
- It is evening, and past the windows of her living room, Central Park is wrapped in deep darkness.
- 1895, Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest, Kapitel 24
- (archaic) The west
Declension
Template:de-decl-noun-m (times of day) Tageszeit; Morgendämmerung, Morgen, Vormittag, Mittag, Nachmittag (Frühnachmittag, Spätnachmittag), Abenddämmerung, Abend, Nacht, Mitternacht (Category: de:Times of day)
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See also
Further reading
- “Abend” in Duden online
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Abend”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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