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German
Etymology
From Middle High German nāchgebūr(e), from Old High German nāhgibūr(o), from Proto-West Germanic *nāhwagabūrō, from Proto-Germanic *nēhwagabūrô (“neighbour”). Equivalent to nah, nach (“near, next, after”) + Bauer (“dweller, farmer”). The first component underwent pre-cluster shortening, the second was monophthongized from Early Modern German Baur (and then possibly associated with the unrelated suffix -bar).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnaxbaːr/, , , (standard)
- IPA(key): /ˈnaxbər/, (common variant)
- IPA(key): /ˈnaːxbaːr/ (chiefly obsolete, still regionally in Switzerland)
Noun
Nachbar m (weak or mixed, genitive Nachbarn or (more informal) Nachbars, plural Nachbarn, feminine Nachbarin)
- neighbour
Usage notes
- The word can be declined according to the weak or mixed group. Both ways are standard, but weak declension is more common in formal usage, mixed declension in colloquial usage.
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Further reading
- “Nachbar” in Duden online
- “Nachbar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Nachbar” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon