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Meet das Mittelalter

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All 3 meanings

  1. (figurative) dark ages, an uncultured or barbaric era (from a misrepresented view with roots in Renaissance and Protestant thought)
  2. (now rare and mostly humorous) middle age (of life)
  3. (by extension, collective, colloquial, derogatory) middle-aged people

Meanings from Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Forms

How the article changes

For das Mittelalter, use the coloured column: neuter.

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

no plural

Examples

  1. 1
    Das europäische Mittelalter prägte Europas Geschichte.The European Middle Ages shaped Europe's history.Nominative · subjectPractise „europäisch“ →
  2. 2
    Wir erforschen das späte Mittelalter.We study the Late Middle Ages.Accusative · erforschenPractise „spät“ →
  3. 3
    Aus dem dunklen Mittelalter stammen viele Märchen.Many fairy tales come from the dark Middle Ages.Dative · ausPractise „dunkel“ →
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