Weihnachten – German noun declension

German noun forms of Weihnachten

Noun: Weihnachten
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:

Nominative

Indefinite

Singularein Weihnachten
Plural Weihnachten

Definite

Singulardas Weihnachten
Pluraldie Weihnachten

Genitive

Indefinite

Singulareines Weihnachten; Weihnachtens
Plural Weihnachten

Definite

Singulardes Weihnachten; Weihnachtens
Pluralder Weihnachten

Dative

Indefinite

Singulareinem Weihnachten
Plural Weihnachten

Definite

Singulardem Weihnachten
Pluralden Weihnachten

Accusative

Indefinite

Singularein Weihnachten
Plural Weihnachten

Definite

Singulardas Weihnachten
Pluraldie Weihnachten

Sample Sentences

  • Es ist Weihnachten. (It's Christmas.)
  • frohe Weihnachten! (fröhliche Weihnachten!) (merry Christmas!)
  • Wir wünschen Ihnen frohe Weihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr! ((formal) We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!)
  • 2016, Miriam Malik, Ein Drache zu Weihnachten und andere Weihnachtsgeschichten, story Ein Löwe zu Weihnachten (I already endured three Christmases, two Easters and carnival as well as countless child's birthdays.)

Nouns inflected like Weihnachten

Joule, Khmer, Weihnachten, Soul, PR,

Etymology

1. From Middle High German wīhenahten (“Christmas”), from a dative plural ze den wīhen nahten (“in the holy nights”). Compare modern weihen (“to hallow”) and Nacht.
2. The oldest form (1170) is a singular diu wīhe naht (“the Holy Night”); the somewhat later plural is used to refer to the Christmas days and nights collectively. A relation with earlier heathen festivals is not endorsed by the etymological standard sources, though the possibility is admitted.
3. The term is a cognate with Low German Wiehnachten.

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