Schinken – German noun declension

German noun forms of Schinken

Noun: Schinken
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:

Nominative

Indefinite

Singularein Schinken
Plural Schinken

Definite

Singularder Schinken
Pluraldie Schinken

Genitive

Indefinite

Singulareines Schinkens
Plural Schinken

Definite

Singulardes Schinkens
Pluralder Schinken

Dative

Indefinite

Singulareinem Schinken
Plural Schinken

Definite

Singulardem Schinken
Pluralden Schinken

Accusative

Indefinite

Singulareinen Schinken
Plural Schinken

Definite

Singularden Schinken
Pluraldie Schinken

Sample Sentences

  • Einen Schinken gut zu backen. […] wällt ihn nach der Form des Schinken aus, […] Wenn der der Schinken abgetrocknet ist, […] [1803, Neues Kochbuch für bürgerliche Haushaltungen, oder Anweisung zur Zubereitung einer gesunden und schmackhaften Hausmannskost, …, Coburg, page 62:]
  • Ölschinken ((large) oil painting)

Etymology

1. From Middle High German schinke, from Old High German scinco, from Proto-West Germanic *skinkō, from Proto-Germanic *skinkô, *skinkō (“shank; thigh”). In the sense “tome” originally student slang (18th c.), from the use of pigskin leather to bind such books.
2. Related to German Low German Schinken (also: skinken, sschinken (Westphalian; linguistic spelling; accusative)) Middle Dutch schenke (“shin, hough, ham”), Middle English schench (“thigh; leg”), dialectal English skink (“a shin of beef”), also English shank (“lower part of the leg”). See: English Nouns 'skink', English Nouns 'shank'.

Verbs referencing "Schinken"

English Nouns skink, Bulgarian Nouns шунка, Hungarian Nouns sonka, Romanian Nouns șuncă, Polish Nouns szynka, Italian Nouns stinco, Russian Nouns шинка, Ukrainian Nouns шинка, Latvian Nouns šķiņķis, Belarusan Nouns шынка.

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