Taste

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See also: taste and tāste

German

Etymology

From Italian tasto (“key”), from the verb tastare, from Vulgar Latin *tastāre (“to touch, feel”), from *taxitāre, from Latin taxāre (“to touch sharply”), from tangere (“to touch”). Related with older German tasten, which is from the same Latin verb through Old French.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtastə/
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  • Hyphenation: Tas‧te

Noun

Taste f (genitive Taste, plural Tasten)

  1. key, button (on a piano, keyboard, etc.)

Declension

Declension of Taste
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Taste die Tasten
genitive einer der Taste der Tasten
dative einer der Taste den Tasten
accusative eine die Taste die Tasten

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Further reading

  • “Taste” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Taste” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Taste” in Duden online
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