Schwalbe – German noun declension

Noun: Schwalbe
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:

Nominative

Genitive

Dative

Accusative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like Schwalbe

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. From Middle High German swalwe, from Old High German swalwa, from Proto-West Germanic *swalwā. Cognate with Middle Dutch swaluwe (modern Dutch zwaluw), Old Saxon swala, Old English swealwe (modern English swallow), Old Norse svala (Danish svale, Swedish svala).
2. The football sense from a saying „Der fliegt wie ’ne Schwalbe!“ (“The man flies like a swallow!”), or the like, punning on fliegen in the sense of “to fall”. Compare hinfliegen (“to fall down”). See: Dutch Nouns 'zwaluw', Old English Nouns 'swealwe', English Nouns 'swallow', Danish Nouns 'svale', Swedish Nouns 'svala'.

Verbs referencing "Schwalbe"

Dutch Nouns zwaluw, Dutch Nouns schwalbe.

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