Apfel
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German
Alternative forms
- Appel (colloquial, northern and central Germany)
Etymology
From Middle High German apfel, from Old High German apful, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *apluz (compare Dutch appel, West Frisian apel, English apple), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.
Pronunciation
Noun
Apfel m (strong, genitive Apfels, plural Äpfel, diminutive Äpfelchen n or Äpfelein n or Äpflein n)
- apple (fruit)
- apple tree
- (poetic, euphemistic, plural only) breasts
- (rare) Abbreviation of Pferdeapfel (“road apple”).
Declension
Declension of Apfel [masculine, strong]
Hyponyms
- Bratapfel
- Gelbapfel
- Goldapfel
- Granatapfel
- Holzapfel
- Rotapfel
Derived terms
Related terms
- Äpfel und Birnen
- Apfelbaum
- Apfelessig
- Apfelgarten
- apfelgrün
- Apfelkuchen
- Apfelmark
- Apfelmus
- Apfelplantage
- Apfelsaft
- Apfelschale
- Apfelscheibe
- Apfelschiffchen
- Apfelschorle
- Apfelstückchen
- Apfeltorte
- Apfelwein
- Apfelwiese
- der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm
- ein Apfel und ein Ei
- Erdapfel
- Gallapfel
- in den sauren Apfel beißen
- Pferdeapfel
- Reichsapfel
- Zankapfel
Proper noun
Apfel m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Apfels or (with an article) Apfel, feminine genitive Apfel, plural Apfels or Apfel)
- a surname
Declension
singular | plural | |||||||
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masculine | feminine | |||||||
indef. | def. | noun | indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | (ein) | (der) | Apfel | (eine) | (die) | Apfel | (die) | Apfels, Apfel |
genitive | (eines) | (des) | Apfels, Apfel1 | (einer) | (der) | Apfel | (der) | Apfels, Apfel |
dative | (einem) | (dem) | Apfel | (einer) | (der) | Apfel | (den) | Apfels, Apfel |
accusative | (einen) | (den) | Apfel | (eine) | (die) | Apfel | (die) | Apfels, Apfel |
Declension of Apfel [masculine // feminine, surname]
1With an article.
Related terms
Further reading
- “Apfel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Apfel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Apfel” in Duden online
Apfel on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Apfel”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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