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Schaffhausen

(das) Schaffhausen

Schaffhausen is a proper noun and usually takes no article. When one is needed it is das.

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

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Meaning

[1] A city in Switzerland

[1] eine Stadt in der Schweiz

[2] A Swiss canton of the same name

[2] ein gleichnamiger schweizerischer Kanton

Examples

[1] Schaffhausen is located on the edge of the Mittelland and in the area of ​​the moderate climate zone area

[1] Schaffhausen befindet sich am Rande des Mittellandes und im Bereich der gemäßigten Klimazone.

[1] "On March 21, 1945, two prisoners, the Ukrainian Wassili Sklarenko and the Austrian Adam Puntschart, managed to escape to Schaffhausen."

[1] „Am 21. März 1945 gelang zwei Häftlingen, dem Ukrainer Wassili Sklarenko und dem Österreicher Adam Puntschart, die Flucht nach Schaffhausen.“
More source examples (1)

These dictionary examples can include historical and less common uses.

The canton of Schaffhausen is the northernmost canton of Switzerland

[2] Der Kanton Schaffhausen ist der nördlichste Kanton der Schweiz.
Grammar note

The article is needed if "Schaffhausen" in a certain quality, at a certain time or period as a subject or object in the sentence, is otherwise, i.e. usually, no article is used.

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ (das) Schaffhausen —
Genitiv (des Schaffhausen) (des Schaffhausens) Schaffhausens —
Dativ (dem) Schaffhausen —
Akkusativ (das) Schaffhausen —

Pronunciation

In context

[1] Schaffhausen
[1] Schaffhausen Wikimedia Commons

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