Ganove

German

Alternative forms

• Ganeff (dated, still sometimes Austria)

Etymology

19th-century back-formation from the plural Ganoven, from Yiddish גנבֿים (ganóvim), itself plural of גנבֿ (gánev, “thief”), whence the dated German form above. Further from Hebrew גַּנָּב (gannāv).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈnoːvə/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Noun

Ganove m (weak, genitive Ganoven, plural Ganoven, feminine Ganovin)

1. (informal, derogatory) thief, fraudster, member of the criminal underworld, ganef

Declension

Declension of Ganove [masculine, weak]

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

Further reading

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