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Meet der Einwohner

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All 2 meanings

  1. inhabitant (anyone who lives or dwells in something, especially a country, region, settlement)
  2. (generally obsolete, still biblical) an inhabitant without the full rights of a citizen; now used in the form Inwohner in historic terminology

Meanings from Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Forms

How the article changes

For der Einwohner, 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

Plural die Einwohner · Dative plural den Einwohnern

Examples

  1. 1
    Der neue Einwohner wohnt seit kurzem hier.The new inhabitant has lived here for a short time.Nominative · subjectPractise „neu“ →
  2. 2
    Die Gemeinde begrüßt den neuen Einwohner.The community welcomes the new inhabitant.Accusative · begrüßenPractise „neu“ →
  3. 3
    Die Nachbarn helfen einem jungen Einwohner.The neighbors help a young resident.Dative · helfenPractise „jung“ →
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