Sekretär
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin sēcrētārius.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /zekreˈtɛːr/, [ze-], [ˌzɛ-], [ˌzeː-], [-kʁe-], [-kʁə-], [-ˈtɛ(ː)ɐ̯], [-ˈte(ː)ɐ̯]
Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file) - Hyphenation: Se‧kre‧tär
Noun
[edit]Sekretär m (strong, genitive Sekretärs, plural Sekretäre, feminine Sekretärin)
- secretary (male or unspecified sex)
- official of an organization
- (historical) high-ranking member in the Central committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
- (Germany) title of a Beamter ("Public servant") at the beginning of the middle service
- (furniture) bureau, secretary
- Synonym: Schreibsekretär m
Usage notes
[edit](3) Often used with an addendum, e.g. Sekretär für … (‘secretary for …’) or Parteisekretär (‘party secretary’).
(4) The title is always preceded by a prefix, the most common being Regierungs- (‘in government administration’), in which case the full title is Regierungssekretär. In terms of hierarchy, a Sekretär is comparable to a Stabsunteroffizier (staff sergeant) or Obermaat (petty officer second class).
Declension
[edit]Declension of Sekretär [masculine, strong]
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Sekretär” in Duden online
- “Sekretär”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)
Beamter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Regierungssekretär on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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