Kapital

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German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian capitale ((economic) capital), from Latin capitālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kapiˈtaːl/
  • Rhymes: -aːl
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Noun

Kapital n (strong, genitive Kapitals or (rare) Kapitales, plural (rare) Kapitale or Kapitalien)

  1. (economics, Marxism, rarely in the plural) capital
    • 1894, Karl Marx, edited by Friedrich Engels, Das Kapital , III: Der Gesammtprocess der kapitalistischen Produktion, Hamburg: Otto Meissner, page 1:
      In ihrer wirklichen Bewegung treten sich die Kapitale in solchen konkreten Formen gegenüber, für die die Gestalt des Kapitals im unmittelbaren Productionsprocess, wie seine Gestalt im Cirkulationsprocess, nur als besondere Momente erscheinen.
      In their actual movement the capitals come head to head in such concrete forms for which the shape of the capital in the immediate process of production, such as its shape in the process of circulation, only appear as particular moments.
  2. (East Germany, only singular) capitalists collectively

Declension

Derived terms

Compound nouns ending with -kapital
Compound nouns beginning with Kapital-

Descendants

  • Yiddish: קאַפּיטאַל (kapital)

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Noun

Kapital m

  1. capital

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