Tagebau

German

Alternative forms

• Tagbau (southern)

Etymology

From Tag (“day”) +‎ -e- +‎ Bau (“building, winning, mining”). The first component refers to the (sun-lit) surface of the earth, as in the mining terms unter Tage (“below ground”) and über Tage (“above ground”). The second component is used in the sense of Abbau; compare Raubbau.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Tagebau m (strong, genitive Tagebaus or Tagebaues, plural Tagebaue)

1. open-pit mining, opencast mining
2. open-pit mine

Declension

Declension of Tagebau [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Tagebau	die	Tagebaue
genitive	eines	des	Tagebaus, Tagebaues	der	Tagebaue
dative	einem	dem	Tagebau, Tagebaue1	den	Tagebauen
accusative	einen	den	Tagebau	die	Tagebaue

¹Now rare, see notes.

Antonyms

• Untertagebau

Further reading

• “Tagebau” in Duden online
• “Tagebau” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache