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Messlatte

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

Plural
die Messlatten

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Why is it die Messlatte?

Messlatte ends in -e, and most nouns ending in -e are feminine: in a German dictionary, 79% of them take die.

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Meaning

[1] Stab with a measure of measure of how it was used in the surveying system for distance measurement

[1] Stab mit Maßeinteilung, wie er im Vermessungswesen zur Entfernungsmessung benutzt wurde

Examples

[1] The bar was largely displaced by the measuring tape

[1] Die Messlatte wurde durch das Maßband weitgehend verdrängt.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Messlatte die Messlatten
Genitiv der Messlatte der Messlatten
Dativ der Messlatte den Messlatten
Akkusativ die Messlatte die Messlatten

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