Drohne – German noun declension

Noun: Drohne
Gender: Feminine
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Nominative

Genitive

Dative

Accusative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like Drohne

Teetasse, Hemmschwelle, Türangel, Entspannungspause, Umgehungsstraße, Schuppenflechte, Glasplatte, Türfalle, Teestube, Drossel, Biosynthese, Briefklammer, Bandbrasse, Bandbreite, Eisscholle, Bauweise, Umhängetasche, Schwester, K-Frage, Abflughalle, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Ca. 1600, from Middle Low German drōne (variant of commoner drāne), from Old Saxon drāna, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drēnuz.
2. The Low German form replaced older Tren(e), Trän(e), from Middle High German trën(e), from Old High German trëno, from the Germanic ablaut variant *drenô. This may have been reinforced by the desire to avoid homonymy with Träne (“tear”). The word was originally a masculine but became feminine in Early Modern German, probably under the influence of Biene (“bee”). Drones were at that time distinguished only by function; the fact that they were males was generally unknown. The aircraft sense is a semantic loan from cognate English drone. See: English Nouns 'drone'.

Verbs referencing "Drohne"

English Nouns drone, Old English Nouns dran, Russian Nouns трутень.

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