Medium

See also: medium, médium, and mèdium

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeːdi̯ʊm/

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Noun

Medium n (strong, genitive Mediums, plural Medien)

1. (usually in the plural) media, medium (format for communicating or presenting information)
2. medium (the nature of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum or a specific substance)
3. medium (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)
4. (linguistics) middle voice

   Synonyms: Mediopassiv, Mittel

Declension

Declension of Medium [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Medium	die	Medien
genitive	eines	des	Mediums	der	Medien
dative	einem	dem	Medium	den	Medien
accusative	ein	das	Medium	die	Medien

Derived terms

• Massenmedien

Further reading

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