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Meet der Stand

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All 5 meanings

  1. standing, state, status, position, situation
  2. (sociology) class, stratum (group of people with a certain social status)
  3. estate
  4. booth, stand
  5. (Switzerland) canton (state of Switzerland)

Meanings from Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Forms

How the article changes

For der Stand, 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 Stände · Dative plural den Ständen

Examples

  1. 1
    Der aktuelle Stand der Verhandlungen ist noch unklar.The current status of the negotiations is still unclear.Nominative · subjectPractise „aktuell“ →
  2. 2
    Wir prüfen den aktuellen Stand der Arbeit.We check the current status of the work.Accusative · prüfenPractise „aktuell“ →
  3. 3
    Der Bericht handelt von einem frühen Stand der Planung.The report is about an early stage of planning.Dative · vonPractise „früh“ →
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