Noun: Welt
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Nominative
Indefinite
| Singular | eine Welt |
| Plural | Welten |
Definite
| Singular | die Welt |
| Plural | die Welten |
Genitive
Indefinite
| Singular | einer Welt |
| Plural | Welten |
Definite
| Singular | der Welt |
| Plural | der Welten |
Dative
Indefinite
| Singular | einer Welt |
| Plural | Welten |
Definite
| Singular | der Welt |
| Plural | den Welten |
Accusative
Indefinite
| Singular | eine Welt |
| Plural | Welten |
Definite
| Singular | die Welt |
| Plural | die Welten |
Sample Sentences
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Georg Büchner, Dantons Tod. Ein Drama (Condor Bibliothek im Apollo Verlag, Lindau, p. 50) (The world is the Eternal Jew, the vacuum (Nought) is Death, but that is impossible.)
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Karl Marx (1978) [1845], “Thesen über Feuerbach”, in Marx-Engels-Werke, volume 3, page 7; English translation from Marx/Engels Collected Works, volume 5, 1976, page 5 (The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.)
Nouns inflected like Welt
Außenheirat,
Waffengattung,
Kurzwortbildung,
Offenbarungsreligion,
Belästigung,
Literatur,
Brandbekämpfung,
Drohung,
Exhumierung,
Digitaluhr,
Insektensammlung,
Schriftart,
Eisschicht,
Benutzung,
Unterstellung,
Abwasserreinigung,
Staatsverschuldung,
Unterschlagung,
Verfahrenstechnik,
Konvektionsströmung, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German wëlt, assimilative contraction of older wërlt, from Old High German wëralt, from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz. Cognate to English world, Dutch wereld, Swedish värld. See: English Nouns '
world', Dutch Nouns '
wereld', Swedish Nouns '
värld'.
Verbs referencing "Welt"
Dutch Nouns
wereld, Danish Nouns
verden.
Translations