Asperger

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See also: asperger

English

Noun

Asperger (plural Aspergers)

  1. Somebody who has Asperger's syndrome.
    • 2014, Sarah Patten, What to Feed an Asperger: How to go from 3 foods to 300 with love, patience:
      Breakfast – literally to break the night-time fast – is the most important meal of the day, but it is ten times more so for an Asperger.

Anagrams

German

Etymology

Asperg +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaspɛʁɡɐ/
  • Hyphenation: As‧per‧ger

Noun

Asperger m (genitive Aspergers, plural Asperger)

  1. resident of Asperg
  2. Ellipsis of Asperger-Syndrom., Asperger's syndrome.

Declension

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Adjective

Asperger (invariable)

  1. from, of, or pertaining to Asperg

Usage notes

  • Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted by Duden, DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See -er for more.

Further reading

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