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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.“

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

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