Saubermann

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German

FWOTD – 30 December 2015

Etymology

sauber (“clean”) +‎ Mann (“man”)

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  • Hyphenation: Sau‧ber‧mann

Noun

Saubermann m (strong, genitive Saubermannes or Saubermanns, plural Saubermänner, feminine Sauberfrau)

  1. (humorous, chiefly politics) "Mr. Clean" (Someone with a squeaky clean image or who cares about public morality.)
    • 2004, Der Spiegel‎, number 48/2004, page 18:
      Der selbst ernannte Saubermann des Europa-Parlaments […] ist selbst ins Visier der Betrugsermittler der EU geraten.
      The self-declared "Mr. Clean" of the European Parliament has himself become a target of the fraud investigators of the EU.

Declension

Declension of Saubermann
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Saubermann die Saubermänner
genitive eines des Saubermannes, Saubermanns der Saubermänner
dative einem dem Saubermann, Saubermanne1 den Saubermännern
accusative einen den Saubermann die Saubermänner

1Now rare, see notes.

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