Allerseelen

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌalɐˈzeːlən/
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Noun

Allerseelen n (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

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Derived terms

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