Kriegsmarine

English

Etymology

German Kriegsmarine

Proper noun

Kriegsmarine

(historical, military, nautical, World War II) The navy of Nazi Germany.

Coordinate terms

Kaiserliche Marine

Related terms

DKM (“Deutsches Kriegsmarine”)

Translations

Translations

German: Kriegsmarine (de)

German

Etymology

From Krieg +‎ Marine, literally “war navy”.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈkʁiːksmaˌʁiːnə]
Audio (file)

Noun

Kriegsmarine f (genitive Kriegsmarine, plural Kriegsmarinen)

(historical) the German navy between 1935 and 1945, during the Nazi regime

Declension

Declension of Kriegsmarine [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Kriegsmarine	die	Kriegsmarinen
genitive	einer	der	Kriegsmarine	der	Kriegsmarinen
dative	einer	der	Kriegsmarine	den	Kriegsmarinen
accusative	eine	die	Kriegsmarine	die	Kriegsmarinen

Descendants

English: Kriegsmarine

Further reading

“Kriegsmarine” in Duden online
“Kriegsmarine” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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