Generalgouvernement

German

Etymology

From general- +‎ Gouvernement.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡenəˈʁaːlɡuvɛʁnəˌmɑ̃ː/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: Ge‧ne‧ral‧gou‧ver‧ne‧ment

Noun

Generalgouvernement n (strong, genitive Generalgouvernements, plural Generalgouvernements)

(government) large administrative region

Declension

Declension of Generalgouvernement [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Generalgouvernement	die	Generalgouvernements
genitive	eines	des	Generalgouvernements	der	Generalgouvernements
dative	einem	dem	Generalgouvernement	den	Generalgouvernements
accusative	ein	das	Generalgouvernement	die	Generalgouvernements

Proper noun

Generalgouvernement n (proper noun, genitive Generalgouvernements or (optionally with an article) Generalgouvernement)

(historical, Nazism) General Government (a former country in Europe)

Descendants

→ English: General Government (calque)
→ Polish: Generalne Gubernatorstwo (calque)
→ Russian: Генерал-губернаторство (General-gubernatorstvo) (partial calque)

Further reading

“Generalgouvernement” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“Generalgouvernement” in Duden online
“Generalgouvernement”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
“Generalgouvernement” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

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