Hessen
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɦɛ.sə(n)/
- Hyphenation: Hes‧sen
- Rhymes: -ɛsən
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch hessen, from Middle High German Hessen (“Hesse”).
Derived terms
- Hessisch
- Rheinhessen
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form..
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhesːen/, [ˈhe̞s̠ːe̞n]
- Rhymes: -esːen
- Syllabification(key): Hes‧sen
Declension
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when talking about location; for example, "in Hesse" is Hessenissä.
| Inflection of Hessen (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Hessen | — | |
| genitive | Hessenin | — | |
| partitive | Hesseniä | — | |
| illative | Hesseniin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Hessen | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Hessen | — |
| gen. | Hessenin | ||
| genitive | Hessenin | — | |
| partitive | Hesseniä | — | |
| inessive | Hessenissä | — | |
| elative | Hessenistä | — | |
| illative | Hesseniin | — | |
| adessive | Hessenillä | — | |
| ablative | Hesseniltä | — | |
| allative | Hessenille | — | |
| essive | Hesseninä | — | |
| translative | Hesseniksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Hessenittä | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
| Possessive forms of Hessen (type paperi) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | Hessenini | Hessenimme |
| 2nd person | Hessenisi | Hesseninne |
| 3rd person | Hesseninsä | |
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈhɛsən], IPA(key): [ˈhɛsn̩]
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Etymology 1
Originally the dative plural of Hesse m (“Hessian”), meaning "(the land) by the Hessians".
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Hessen n (proper noun, genitive Hessens or (optionally with an article) Hessen)
- Hesse (a state in central Germany)
- 1836, Max Wilhelm Götzinger, Die deutsche Spache und ihre Literatur. Erster Band. Die deutsche Sprache, page 67:
- Die westfränkische Mundart zieht sich durch beide Hessen nordwärts ins Nassauische, weiter westwärts in die Rheinpfalz bis über den Rhein hinüber.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- 1836, Max Wilhelm Götzinger, Die deutsche Spache und ihre Literatur. Erster Band. Die deutsche Sprache, page 67:
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