Asperger

See also: asperger

English

Etymology

From German Asperger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæspɜː(ɹ)ɡɚ/

Proper noun

Asperger (plural Aspergers)

1. A surname from German.

   Hans Asperger, b. 1906

Derived terms

• Asperger's syndrome

Noun

Asperger (plural Aspergers)

1. Somebody who has Asperger's syndrome.
   • 2014, Sarah Patten, What to Feed an Asperger: How to go from 3 foods to 300 with love, patience:

     Breakfast – literally to break the night-time fast – is the most important meal of the day, but it is ten times more so for an Asperger.

Anagrams

• presager

French

Etymology

Borrowed from German Asperger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as.pɛʁ.ɡəʁ/, /as.pɛʁ.ʒəʁ/, (Québec) /as.pɛʁ.ʒɛʁ/

Proper noun

Asperger m or f

1. a surname from German

   Hans Asperger, b. 1906

Derived terms

• syndrome d’Asperger

Noun

Asperger

1. someone who has Asperger's syndrome

German

Etymology

Asperg +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaspɛʁɡɐ/
• Hyphenation: As‧per‧ger

• Audio:

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Noun

Asperger m (strong, genitive Aspergers, plural Asperger)

1. resident of Asperg
2. Ellipsis of Asperger-Syndrom (“Asperger's syndrome”).
   • 2022, Verena “Sieglinde” G[reiner], Unterwegs mit dem Asperger-Syndrom, 2nd edition, Göppingen: Manuela Kinzel Verlag, →ISBN, page 10:

     Der Asperger ist mein Begleiter, den ich nicht wie Schmutz von meinem Körper in der Dusche entfernen kann.

     Asperger's accompanies me in such a manner that I could not, as I could with soil, just scrub it off my body.

3. (nonstandard) somebody who has Asperger's syndrome, Asperger.

Declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Asperger	die	Asperger
genitive	eines	des	Aspergers	der	Asperger
dative	einem	dem	Asperger	den	Aspergern
accusative	einen	den	Asperger	die	Asperger

Declension of Asperger [masculine, strong]

Adjective

Asperger (indeclinable, no predicative form)

1. (relational) of Asperg

Usage notes

• Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted by Duden, DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See -er for more.

Proper noun

Asperger m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Aspergers or (with an article) Asperger, feminine genitive Asperger, plural Aspergers or Asperger)

1. a surname

   Hans Asperger, b. 1906

Declension

	singular						plural
	masculine			feminine
	indef.	def.	noun	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	(ein)	(der)	Asperger	(eine)	(die)	Asperger	(die)	Aspergers, Asperger
genitive	(eines)	(des)	Aspergers, Asperger1	(einer)	(der)	Asperger	(der)	Aspergers, Asperger
dative	(einem)	(dem)	Asperger	(einer)	(der)	Asperger	(den)	Aspergers, Asperger
accusative	(einen)	(den)	Asperger	(eine)	(die)	Asperger	(die)	Aspergers, Asperger

Declension of Asperger [masculine // feminine, surname]

¹With an article.

Derived terms

• Asperger-Syndrom

Further reading

• “Asperger” in Duden online