Ausbau

See also: ausbau

English

Adjective

Ausbau (not comparable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of ausbau.
   • 2018, Peter A. Kraus, François Grin, editors, The Politics of Multilingualism: Europeanisation, globalisation and linguistic governance, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 149:

     The general aim is to prevent the Ausbau language from being confused with the other, stronger language in contact.

Noun

Ausbau (plural Ausbaus)

1. Alternative letter-case form of ausbau.

German

Etymology

Back-formation from ausbauen. Also analyzable as aus- (“out”) +‎ Bau (“construction”). Compare also Dutch uitbouw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ̯sˌbaʊ̯/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Ausbau m (strong, genitive Ausbaues or Ausbaus, plural Ausbaue or Ausbauten)

1. expansion, update
2. development, buildout

Declension

Declension of Ausbau [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Ausbau	die	Ausbaue, Ausbauten
genitive	eines	des	Ausbaues, Ausbaus	der	Ausbaue, Ausbauten
dative	einem	dem	Ausbau, Ausbaue1	den	Ausbauen, Ausbauten
accusative	einen	den	Ausbau	die	Ausbaue, Ausbauten

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• Ausbausprache

Further reading

• “Ausbau” in Duden online
• “Ausbau”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from English ausbau, from German Ausbau

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aˈusbau̯/ [aˈus.bau̯]
• Rhymes: -usbau̯
• Syllabification: Aus‧bau

Noun

Ausbau (plural Ausbau-Ausbau)

1. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) ausbau

Further reading

• “Ausbau”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016