Bernd

English

Etymology

From German Bernd.

Noun

Bernd (plural Bernds)

1. A German anon (“anonymous poster”)
2. A participant on German online forums and imageboards

Coordinate terms

• /b/tard
• /vip/tard
• anon
• chantard
• vipper

 

Proper noun

Bernd

1. A male given name from German

German

Alternative forms

• Berndt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɛʁnt], [bɛɐ̯nt]

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Proper noun

Bernd

1. a diminutive of the male given name Bernhard

Noun

Bernd m (strong, genitive Bernds, plural Bernds, feminine Bernadette or Berndine)

1. (originally imageboard slang) an anon
   • 2021 December 7, Fefes Blog, Betreffs Impf-Werbung eines Homöopathie-Dealers‎^[1]:

     »[…] Um Gehör und Respekt für unsere Arbeit zu finden, müssten wir auch auf wissenschaftlich aufgearbeitete Fallsammlungen verweisen können, aus denen die Relevanz unserer Methode zweifelsfrei hervorgeht.«
     Ja Scheiße, Bernd! Die gibt es nicht! Was machen wir denn da?

     ‘[…] to meet the demand of attention and deference towards our work, we must be able to refer to a scientifically analyzed fund of cases, by means of which the relevance of our method is evinced without doubt.‘
     No shit, nigga! It ain’t existing, what we gonna do here?

Usage notes

Comes from the popular German imageboard Krautchan, where anonymous posters were known as Bernds.

Declension

Declension of Bernd [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Bernd	die	Bernds
genitive	eines	des	Bernds	der	Bernds
dative	einem	dem	Bernd	den	Bernds
accusative	einen	den	Bernd	die	Bernds