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Sterling

Sterling is a masculine German noun. Its article is der.

Plural
die Sterlinge

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Why is it der Sterling?

Sterling ends in -ling, and most nouns ending in -ling are masculine: in a German dictionary, 82% of them take der.

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Meaning

[1] Short for: pound of sterling, currency unit of the United Kingdom

[1] kurz für: Pfund Sterling, Währungseinheit des Vereinigten Königreichs

Examples

[1] "The North German Hanseatic cities were content with a small penny coin, the hollow pfennig, which was only worth a quarter of the sterling"

[1] „Noch länger begnügten sich die norddeutschen Hansestädte mit einer kleinen Pfennigmünze, dem Hohlpfennig, der nur ein Viertel des Sterlings wert war.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ der Sterling die Sterlinge
Genitiv des Sterlings der Sterlinge
Dativ dem Sterling den Sterlingen
Akkusativ den Sterling die Sterlinge

Pronunciation

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