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Meet der Stamm

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All 5 meanings

  1. tree trunk, main stem of a plant (but never used of thin stalks or twigs)
  2. (ethnography) tribe
  3. (linguistics) stem (of a word)
  4. (biology) phylum
  5. (microbiology) strain (of bacteria, etc.)

Meanings from Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Forms

How the article changes

For der Stamm, 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 Stämme · Dative plural den Stämmen

Examples

  1. 1
    Der dicke Stamm steht am Weg.The thick trunk stands by the path.Nominative · subjectPractise „dick“ →
  2. 2
    Der Förster misst einen dicken Stamm.The forester measures a thick trunk.Accusative · messenPractise „dick“ →
  3. 3
    Der Künstler arbeitet mit einem langen Stamm.The artist works with a long trunk.Dative · mitPractise „lang“ →
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