Ente

See also: ente, enté, énte, and -ente

German

Etymology

From Middle High German ente alongside ant, from Old High German enita alongside anut, from Proto-West Germanic *anad. Compare Dutch eend.

The sense “canard” is a calque of French canard.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɛntə/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛntə
  • Hyphenation: En‧te

Noun

Ente f (genitive Ente, plural Enten, diminutive Entchen n or Entlein n)

  1. duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)
  2. (typically) mallard; by far the most common duck species in the area, thought of as the duck per se
  3. (informal) Citroën 2CV
  4. (medicine) urinal (vessel for holding urine)
  5. (journalism) canard (false or misleading report)
    Synonyms: Falschmeldung, Zeitungsente
    einer Ente aufsitzen ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    • 2022 December 22, Thomas Abeltshauser, “Balzac-Verfilmung „Verlorene Illusionen“: Als Fake News noch Enten waren”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎, ISSN 0931-9085:
      Fake News etwa, die hier noch klassisch „Enten“ heißen, auch dafür gibt es eine Erklärung.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)

Declension
Declension of Ente [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Ente die Enten
genitive einer der Ente der Enten
dative einer der Ente den Enten
accusative eine die Ente die Enten

Derived terms

See also

Further reading
  • “Ente” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Ente” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Ente” in Duden online
  • Ente on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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