Quarantäne

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French quarantaine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁanˈtɛːnə/, /kaʁanˈteːnə/, /kaʁɑ̃ˈtɛːnə/, /kvaʁanˈtɛːnə/, /kvaʁanˈtɛːn/ (Germany)

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• IPA^(key): /kvaʁanˈteːnɛ/, /kaʁanˈteːnɛ/ (Austria)
• Hyphenation: Qua‧ran‧tä‧ne
• Rhymes: -ɛːnə

Noun

Quarantäne f (genitive Quarantäne, plural Quarantänen)

1. quarantine

   unter Quarantäne ― quarantined/in quarantine

   unter Quarantäne stehen ― to be quarantined/in quarantine

Declension

Declension of Quarantäne [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Quarantäne	die	Quarantänen
genitive	einer	der	Quarantäne	der	Quarantänen
dative	einer	der	Quarantäne	den	Quarantänen
accusative	eine	die	Quarantäne	die	Quarantänen

Derived terms

• quarantänisieren
• quarantänieren

Trivia

• As a French borrowing Quarantäne is one of the few German words starting with Qu- that is pronounced as /k/ by the majority of speakers.

Further reading

• “Quarantäne”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Quarantäne” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Quarantäne” in Duden online
• Quarantäne on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de