немец
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Belarusian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *němьcь (“foreigner, German”), from *němъ (“mute”) ((Belarusian нямы́ (njamý))).
Pronunciation
Noun
не́мец • (njémjec) m pers (genitive не́мца, nominative plural не́мцы, genitive plural не́мцаў, female equivalent не́мка)
- a German (male)
- ён не́мец ― jon njémjec ― he is German
Declension
Declension of не́мец (pr hard masc-form accent-a reduc)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | не́мец njémjec |
не́мцы njémcy |
| genitive | не́мца njémca |
не́мцаў njémcaŭ |
| dative | не́мцу njémcu |
не́мцам njémcam |
| accusative | не́мца njémca |
не́мцаў njémcaŭ |
| instrumental | не́мцам njémcam |
не́мцамі njémcami |
| locative | не́мцу njémcu |
не́мцах njémcax |
| count form | — | не́мцы1 njémcy1 |
1Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.
Related terms
- Няме́ччына (Njamjéččyna)
- няме́цкі (njamjécki)
References
- “немец” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
Bulgarian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *němьcь (“foreigner, German”), morphologically from ням (njam, “mute”) + -ец (-ec).
Pronunciation
Noun
не́мец • (némec) m (feminine немки́ня)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | не́мец némec |
не́мци némci |
| definite (subject form) |
не́мецът némecǎt |
не́мците némcite |
| definite (object form) |
не́меца némeca | |
| vocative form | не́мецо némeco |
не́мци némci |
Related terms
See also
- Герма́ния (Germánija)
- герма́нски (germánski)
References
- “немец”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “немец”, in Речник на българския език (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
Russian
Alternative forms
- нѣ́мецъ (ně́mec) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *němьcь (“foreigner, German”), from *němъ (“mute”). Cognate with Russian немо́й (nemój).
Pronunciation
Noun
не́мец • (némec) m anim (genitive не́мца, nominative plural не́мцы, genitive plural не́мцев, feminine не́мка, relational adjective неме́цкий, diminutive не́мчик)
- German, German man
- 1997, Александр Коржаков , “За дирижёрским пультом”, in Борис Ельцин: от рассвета до заката, Москва: Интербук; English translation from Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk, (Please provide a date or year):
- Не́мец закры́л глаза́, пошатну́лся, но упа́сть не успе́л — Кузнецо́в мгнове́нно его́ подхвати́л.
- Némec zakrýl glazá, pošatnúlsja, no upástʹ ne uspél — Kuznecóv mgnovénno jevó podxvatíl.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (obsolete) foreigner
Declension
Derived terms
- неме́тчина f (nemétčina)
- немчура́ (nemčurá, “Fritz(es)”) (derogatory term)
- Proverbs
- что ру́сскому здорово, то не́мцу — смерть (što rússkomu zdorovo, to némcu — smertʹ)
- что ру́сскому хорошо́, то не́мцу — смерть (što rússkomu xorošó, to némcu — smertʹ)
Descendants
See also
- Герма́ния (Germánija)