Sammler

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

German sammeln

German -er

German Sammlerbor.

English Sammler

Borrowed from German Sammler.

Proper noun

Sammler

1. A surname from German.
   • 1970, Saul Bellow, chapter 1, in Mr. Sammler’s Planet‎^[1], Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, published 1971, page 8:

     For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus late afternoons from the Forty-second Street Library had been watching a pickpocket at work […] Mr. Sammler if he had not been a tall straphanger would not with his one good eye have seen these things happening.

German

Etymology

From sammeln (“to collect”) +‎ -er (“-er”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzamlɐ/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Samm‧ler

Noun

Sammler m (strong, genitive Sammlers, plural Sammler, feminine Sammlerin)

1. agent noun of sammeln
   1. collector (person who aims to form a collection of items)
   2. gatherer (person who collects wild edible plants for survival, as opposed to hunting or agriculture)

Declension

Declension of Sammler [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Sammler	die	Sammler
genitive	eines	des	Sammlers	der	Sammler
dative	einem	dem	Sammler	den	Sammlern
accusative	einen	den	Sammler	die	Sammler

Antonyms

• Zerstreuer, Verteiler, Vernichter

Hyponyms

• Briefmarkensammler
• Edelsteinsammler
• Flaschensammler
• Hobbysammler
• Kunstsammler
• Lumpensammler
• Müllsammler
• Münzsammler
• Privatsammler
• Trophäensammler

Related terms

• Sammlung, Sammeln, Sammelei

See also

• Horter
• Anhäufer

Further reading

• “Sammler” in Duden online
• “Sammler”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)