"Gefäß" meaning in German

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Noun

IPA: /ɡəˈfɛːs/, /ɡəˈfeːs/ Audio: De-Gefäß.ogg [Germany, Berlin]
Etymology: From Middle High German gevǣȥe, from Old High German givāȥi; by surface analysis, ge- + fassen. Cognate with Plautdietsch Jefäss. Etymology templates: {{inh|de|gmh|gevǣȥe}} Middle High German gevǣȥe, {{inh|de|goh|givāȥi}} Old High German givāȥi, {{surf|de|ge-|fassen|nocap=1}} by surface analysis, ge- + fassen, {{cog|pdt|Jefäss}} Plautdietsch Jefäss Head templates: {{de-noun|n}} Gefäß n (strong, genitive Gefäßes, plural Gefäße) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|n}} Forms: Gefäßes [genitive], Gefäße [plural], strong [table-tags], Gefäß [nominative, singular], Gefäße [definite, nominative, plural], Gefäßes [genitive, singular], Gefäße [definite, genitive, plural], Gefäß [dative, singular], Gefäße [dative, singular], Gefäßen [dative, definite, plural], Gefäß [accusative, singular], Gefäße [accusative, definite, plural], Gefäss [alternative, Liechtenstein, Switzerland]
  1. (anatomy) vessel Tags: neuter, strong Synonyms (blood vessel): Ader, Blutader
    Sense id: en-Gefäß-de-noun-LfVxLhzz Categories (other): Anatomy, German entries with incorrect language header, German terms prefixed with ge-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 81 3 16 Disambiguation of German terms prefixed with ge-: 45 10 46 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 74 5 21 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 89 2 9 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'blood vessel': 100 0 0
  2. container, jar, pot Tags: neuter, strong Synonyms (container): Behälter
    Sense id: en-Gefäß-de-noun-~G6qatxg Disambiguation of 'container': 0 100 0
  3. hilt Tags: neuter, strong
    Sense id: en-Gefäß-de-noun-QmiKvhS6 Categories (other): German terms prefixed with ge- Disambiguation of German terms prefixed with ge-: 45 10 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: gefäßartig, gefäßförmig

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.