"Chinese" meaning in German

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Noun

IPA: /çiˈneːzə/, /ʃiˈneːzə/, /kiˈneːzə/ [Austria, Southern-Germany, Switzerland] Audio: De-Chinese.ogg , De-at-Chinese.ogg
Etymology: From China + -ese. Etymology templates: {{etymon|de|af|China>PRC|-ese>inhabitant|id=Chinese person}}, {{suffix|de|China|ese}} China + -ese Head templates: {{de-noun|m.weak}} Chinese m (weak, genitive Chinesen, plural Chinesen) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|m.weak}} Forms: Chinesen [genitive], Chinesen [plural], weak [table-tags], Chinese [nominative, singular], Chinesen [definite, nominative, plural], Chinesen [genitive, singular], Chinesen [definite, genitive, plural], Chinesen [dative, singular], Chinesen [dative, definite, plural], Chinesen [accusative, singular], Chinesen [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. A Chinese person, particularly a Han Chinese person Tags: masculine, weak Synonyms: Sinese [obsolete] Derived forms: Chinesin, chinesisch, Chinesisch
    Sense id: en-Chinese-de-noun-AT5Vgqy7 Categories (other): German entries referencing etymons with invalid IDs, German entries with incorrect language header, German terms suffixed with -ese, China, Ethnonyms, Nationalities Disambiguation of German entries referencing etymons with invalid IDs: 89 11 Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 92 8 Disambiguation of German terms suffixed with -ese: 85 15 Disambiguation of China: 88 12 Disambiguation of Ethnonyms: 69 31 Disambiguation of Nationalities: 91 9
  2. Chinese restaurant Tags: masculine, weak Synonyms: Chinarestaurant
    Sense id: en-Chinese-de-noun-8QGwpu1n

Inflected forms

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "af",
        "3": "China>PRC",
        "4": "-ese>inhabitant",
        "id": "Chinese person"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "China",
        "3": "ese"
      },
      "expansion": "China + -ese",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From China + -ese.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "de-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinese",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m.weak"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese m (weak, genitive Chinesen, plural Chinesen)",
      "name": "de-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "Chi‧ne‧se"
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m.weak"
      },
      "name": "de-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "German entries referencing etymons with invalid IDs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "German entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "German terms suffixed with -ese",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "de",
          "name": "China",
          "orig": "de:China",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "69 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "de",
          "name": "Ethnonyms",
          "orig": "de:Ethnonyms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "de",
          "name": "Nationalities",
          "orig": "de:Nationalities",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "58 42",
          "word": "Chinesin"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "58 42",
          "word": "chinesisch"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "58 42",
          "word": "Chinesisch"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Chinese person, particularly a Han Chinese person"
      ],
      "id": "en-Chinese-de-noun-AT5Vgqy7",
      "links": [
        [
          "Chinese",
          "#English"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ],
        [
          "particularly",
          "particularly"
        ],
        [
          "Han Chinese",
          "Han Chinese"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "58 42",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "Sinese"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "weak"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Chinese restaurant"
      ],
      "id": "en-Chinese-de-noun-8QGwpu1n",
      "links": [
        [
          "restaurant",
          "restaurant"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Chinarestaurant"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "weak"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/çiˈneːzə/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃiˈneːzə/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Chinese.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2c/De-Chinese.ogg/De-Chinese.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/De-Chinese.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kiˈneːzə/",
      "tags": [
        "Austria",
        "Southern-Germany",
        "Switzerland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-at-Chinese.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/88/De-at-Chinese.ogg/De-at-Chinese.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/De-at-Chinese.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Chinese"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "German entries referencing etymons with invalid IDs",
    "German entries with incorrect language header",
    "German lemmas",
    "German masculine nouns",
    "German nouns",
    "German terms suffixed with -ese",
    "German weak nouns",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "de:China",
    "de:Ethnonyms",
    "de:Nationalities"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Chinesin"
    },
    {
      "word": "chinesisch"
    },
    {
      "word": "Chinesisch"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "af",
        "3": "China>PRC",
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      },
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      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "China",
        "3": "ese"
      },
      "expansion": "China + -ese",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From China + -ese.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "de-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinese",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Chinesen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m.weak"
      },
      "expansion": "Chinese m (weak, genitive Chinesen, plural Chinesen)",
      "name": "de-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "Chi‧ne‧se"
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m.weak"
      },
      "name": "de-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A Chinese person, particularly a Han Chinese person"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Chinese",
          "#English"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ],
        [
          "particularly",
          "particularly"
        ],
        [
          "Han Chinese",
          "Han Chinese"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "weak"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Chinese restaurant"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "restaurant",
          "restaurant"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Chinarestaurant"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "weak"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/çiˈneːzə/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃiˈneːzə/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Chinese.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2c/De-Chinese.ogg/De-Chinese.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/De-Chinese.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kiˈneːzə/",
      "tags": [
        "Austria",
        "Southern-Germany",
        "Switzerland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-at-Chinese.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/88/De-at-Chinese.ogg/De-at-Chinese.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/De-at-Chinese.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "Sinese"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Chinese"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Chinese meaning in German (2.9kB)

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  "called_from": "wiktionary/179/20240425uppercase_tags",
  "msg": "Chinese/German/noun: invalid uppercase tag Southern-Germany not in or uppercase_tags",
  "path": [],
  "section": "German",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "Chinese",
  "trace": ""
}

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