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Meet der Bauer

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All 6 meanings

  1. farmer (male or of unspecified gender)
  2. peasant (male or of unspecified gender)
  3. (derogatory) boor, yokel, bumpkin (male or of unspecified gender)
  4. (chess) pawn
  5. (card games) jack, knave
  6. (almost exclusively in compounds) builder (male or of unspecified gender)

Meanings from Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Forms

How the article changes

For der Bauer, use the coloured columns: masculine and plural.

der, die, das
Casemasculinefeminineneuterplural
nominativederdiedasdie
accusativedendiedasdie
dativedemderdemden
ein, kein, mein: ein has no plural. mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser… end like kein.
Casemasculinefeminineneuterplural
nominativeeineineeinkeine
accusativeeineneineeinkeine
dativeeinemeinereinemkeinen

n-noun den Bauern, dem Bauern · Plural die Bauern

Bauer is an n-noun: it adds -(e)n in every case except the nominative singular.

Examples

  1. 1
    Der große Bauer arbeitet auf dem Feld.The big farmer works in the field.Nominative · subjectPractise „groß“ →
  2. 2
    Ich sehe heute einen jungen Bauern.I see a young farmer today.Accusative · sehenPractise „jung“ →
  3. 3
    Anna hilft einem kranken Bauern bei der Arbeit.Anna helps a sick farmer with the work.Dative · helfenPractise „krank“ →
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