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Mauerkrone

die Mauerkrone

Mauerkrone is a feminine German noun. Its article is die.

Plural
die Mauerkronen

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Why is it die Mauerkrone?

Mauerkrone is a compound noun, and German compounds take the article of their last word: die Krone. So it’s die Mauerkrone.

Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Architecture, construction: The upper final area of ​​a wall

[1] Architektur, Bauwesen: die obere Abschlussfläche einer Mauer

Examples

[1] He has climbed over the wall crown

[1] Er ist über die Mauerkrone geklettert.

[1] "The steel gray of the Scottish evening sky stretched over the wall crown"

[1] „Über der Mauerkrone dehnte sich das stählerne Grau des schottischen Abendhimmels.“
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[1] "I saw the battlements on the wall crowns, most of which were intact, they came from the second Punic War" "

[1] „Auf den Mauerkronen sah ich die Zinnen, die zum größten Teil unversehrt waren; sie stammten immerhin aus dem zweiten Punischen Krieg.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Mauerkrone die Mauerkronen
Genitiv der Mauerkrone der Mauerkronen
Dativ der Mauerkrone den Mauerkronen
Akkusativ die Mauerkrone die Mauerkronen

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