Meaning
[1] Family name
[1] FamiliennameExamples
[1] "The cosmopolitan Kessler first had to make his peace with the staff of the new democracy, which seems too provincial, too petty -bourgeois"
[1] „Der weltläufige Kessler musste erst seinen Frieden mit dem Personal der neuen Demokratie machen, das ihm zu provinziell, zu kleinbürgerlich erschien.“
Grammar note
The oral, colloquial use of the article for last names is not uniformly used to do not use an article, Central German is inconsistent, in southern German, Austrian and Swiss idioms the article tends to be needed.
In the event of an article use: the "Kessler" - for male individuals who "Kessler" in the singular - for female individuals - and/or a "kessler" for a relative and/or a relative from the family " Kessler ”and/or the group of namesers. The one in the plural applies to the family and/or all name carriers of the same name. The written, standard language use for last names is in principle without an article.
Declension
| 1 | Singular m | Singular f | Plural 1 | Plural 2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | der Kessler (Kessler) | die Kessler (Kessler) | die Kesslers | die Kessler | ||
| Genitiv | des Kessler des Kesslers Kesslers | der Kessler (Kessler) | der Kesslers | der Kessler | ||
| Dativ | dem Kessler (Kessler) | der Kessler (Kessler) | den Kesslers | den Kessler | ||
| Akkusativ | den Kessler (Kessler) | die Kessler (Kessler) | die Kesslers | die Kessler | ||
| siehe auch: Grammatik der deutschen Namen | ||||||
Pronunciation
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