"General" meaning in German

See General in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌɡe(ː).nəˈʁaːl/, /ˌɡɛ.nəˈʁaːl/ Audio: De-General.ogg
Rhymes: -aːl Etymology: Partly via Middle High German general, partly via French général, from Latin generalis. Etymology templates: {{inh|de|gmh|general}} Middle High German general, {{der|de|fr|général}} French général, {{der|de|la|generalis}} Latin generalis Head templates: {{de-noun|m,(e)s,^e:e|f=^in,in}} General m (strong, genitive Generales or Generals, plural Generäle or Generale, feminine Generälin or Generalin) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|m,(e)s,^e:e}} Forms: Generales [genitive], Generals [genitive], Generäle [plural], Generale [plural], Generälin [feminine], Generalin [feminine], strong [table-tags], General [nominative, singular], Generäle [definite, nominative, plural], Generale [definite, nominative, plural], Generales [genitive, singular], Generals [genitive, singular], Generäle [definite, genitive, plural], Generale [definite, genitive, plural], General [dative, singular], Generale [dative, singular], Generälen [dative, definite, plural], Generalen [dative, definite, plural], General [accusative, singular], Generäle [accusative, definite, plural], Generale [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. (military) general (officer in any general rank) Tags: masculine, strong Categories (topical): Military, Military ranks
    Sense id: en-General-de-noun-Z4vrqrxz Disambiguation of Military ranks: 43 32 25 Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 44 6 50 Topics: government, military, politics, war
  2. (military) general (officer in a specific general rank, usually the highest) Tags: masculine, strong Categories (topical): Military
    Sense id: en-General-de-noun-oHoCH6Yq Topics: government, military, politics, war
  3. (Roman Catholicism) general (head of an order) Tags: masculine, strong Categories (topical): Roman Catholicism
    Sense id: en-General-de-noun-Jmgt9hQt Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 44 6 50 Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Brigadegeneral, Generalfeldmarschall, Generalität, Generalleutnant, Generalmajor, Generaloberst, Ordensgeneral

Inflected forms

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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/De-General.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "General"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.