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The article for

Cockney

das Cockney

Cockney is a neuter German noun. Its article is das.

Plural
no plural

Learn the noun together with its article. See the article rules.

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Why is it das Cockney?

No ending, compound or meaning rule gives away the article of Cockney, so learn the two together: das Cockney.

Sense 1
das

Meaning

[1] Linguistics: urban variety of English, especially the London English

[1] Linguistik: städtische Varietät des Englischen, vor allem des Londoner Englischen

Examples

[1] Then I replied in the broadest cockney, that London suburban dialect: "Isn't it a monkey disgrace that even deaf sums to the army"

[1] Da erwiderte ich im breitesten Cockney, jenem Londoner Vorstadtdialekt: "Is es nich 'ne Affenschande, daß sogar Taubstumme zur Armee eingezogen werden?"

[1] "She could not deny her cockney her Scottish way of speaking with the appeal to the Varieté had some grotesque fake."

[1] „Sie konnte ihr Cockney nicht verleugnen. Ihre schottische Sprechweise mit dem Anklang ans Varieté hatte etwas grotesk Unechtes.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ das Cockney —
Genitiv des Cockneys —
Dativ dem Cockney —
Akkusativ das Cockney —

Pronunciation

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