Shoppingcenter

See also: shopping center, and Shopping-Center

German

Alternative forms

• Shopping-Center

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English shopping center.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃɔpɪŋsɛntɐ]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Shoppingcenter n (strong, genitive Shoppingcenters, plural Shoppingcenters)

1. shopping center

Usage notes

• The Duden prescribes that unadapted borrowings from English consisting of two nouns be written solid (Shoppingcenter) or, if it improves legibility, hyphenated (Shopping-Center). The spaced spelling (Shopping Center) is proscribed.^[1]

Declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Shoppingcenter	die	Shoppingcenters
genitive	eines	des	Shoppingcenters	der	Shoppingcenters
dative	einem	dem	Shoppingcenter	den	Shoppingcenters
accusative	ein	das	Shoppingcenter	die	Shoppingcenters

Declension of Shoppingcenter [neuter, strong]

References

1. “Schreibung von Fremdwörtern aus dem Englischen”, in Duden‎ (in German), Cornelsen Verlag GmbH, (Can we date this quote?), archived from the original on 2023-01-20

Further reading

• Shoppingcenter on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Shoppingcenter” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Shoppingcenter” in Duden online
• “Shoppingcenter” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon