Allerseelen

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌalɐˈzeːlən/

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Proper noun

Allerseelen n (proper noun, strong, genitive Allerseelen, plural Allerseelen)

1. (especially Roman Catholicism) All Souls' Day

Usage notes

• The holiday is not kept by Protestants in Germany, who instead remember the dead on Totensonntag (Sunday before Advent Sunday).
• The genitive and plural are widely avoided. The genitive could only be used at all with an adjective: des letzten Allerseelen (“of the last All Souls' Day”).

Declension

Declension of Allerseelen [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Allerseelen	die	Allerseelen
genitive	eines	des	Allerseelen	der	Allerseelen
dative	einem	dem	Allerseelen	den	Allerseelen
accusative	ein	das	Allerseelen	die	Allerseelen

Derived terms

• Allerseelentag

Related terms

• Allerheiligen