Gruppe

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German[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French groupe, from Italian gruppo, groppo, from Vulgar Latin *cruppus, (cf. Renaissance Latin grupus), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, group, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”).[1][2] Doublet of Kropf.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡʁʊpə/
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Noun[edit]

Gruppe f (genitive Gruppe, plural Gruppen, diminutive Grüppchen n or Grüpplein n)

  1. group [From late 17th c.]

Declension[edit]

Declension of Gruppe [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Gruppe die Gruppen
genitive einer der Gruppe der Gruppen
dative einer der Gruppe den Gruppen
accusative eine die Gruppe die Gruppen

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • → Danish: gruppe
  • → Estonian: grupp
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: gruppe
  • → Russian: группа (gruppa) (see there for further descendants)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Gruppe”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
  2. ^ gruppo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Further reading[edit]

  • “Gruppe” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Gruppe” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Gruppe” in Duden online
  • Gruppe on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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