"Senkung" meaning in German

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Noun

IPA: /ˈzɛŋkʊŋ/, [ˈzɛŋkʰʊŋ] Audio: De-Senkung.ogg [Germany, Berlin]
Etymology: From senken (“to lower”) + -ung (“-ing”). Etymology templates: {{ety|de|:af|senken<t:to lower>|-ung<t:-ing>}} [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Old High German", "term" : "-unga", "lang" : "goh" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle High German", "term" : "-ung", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "gmh" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "German", "term" : "-ung", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "de" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "German", "term" : "Senkung", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "de" }" data-lang="de" data-title="Senkung">, {{suffix|de|senken|ung|gloss1=to lower|gloss2=-ing}} senken (“to lower”) + -ung (“-ing”) Head templates: {{de-noun|f}} Senkung f (genitive Senkung, plural Senkungen) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|f}} Forms: Senkung [genitive], Senkungen [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], Senkung [nominative, singular], Senkungen [definite, nominative, plural], Senkung [genitive, singular], Senkungen [definite, genitive, plural], Senkung [dative, singular], Senkungen [dative, definite, plural], Senkung [accusative, singular], Senkungen [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. dip, reduction, lowering, drop, fall, descent Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-Senkung-de-noun-S4p6nh7R Categories (other): German terms suffixed with -ung, Pages with entries Disambiguation of German terms suffixed with -ung: 11 15 29 29 15 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 20 26 21 19
  2. (medicine) prolapse Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-Senkung-de-noun-73zHh-nZ Categories (other): Medicine, German terms suffixed with -ung, Pages with entries Disambiguation of German terms suffixed with -ung: 11 15 29 29 15 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 20 26 21 19 Topics: medicine, sciences
  3. (geology) crustal shortening Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-Senkung-de-noun-e6RKFV0W Categories (other): Geology, German entries referencing missing etymons, German entries with etymon, German entries with incorrect language header, German terms suffixed with -ung, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pages with etymon Disambiguation of German entries referencing missing etymons: 10 16 38 23 13 Disambiguation of German entries with etymon: 9 7 52 22 10 Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 6 10 31 33 20 Disambiguation of German terms suffixed with -ung: 11 15 29 29 15 Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 12 20 28 23 16 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 20 31 22 16 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 20 26 21 19 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 10 17 41 18 15 Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
  4. (linguistics) backing Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-Senkung-de-noun-vDNH3o6M Categories (other): Linguistics, German entries with incorrect language header, German terms suffixed with -ung, Pages with entries Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 6 10 31 33 20 Disambiguation of German terms suffixed with -ung: 11 15 29 29 15 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 20 26 21 19 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  5. (poetry) thesis Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-Senkung-de-noun-KGMik3mq Categories (other): Poetry, German entries with incorrect language header, German terms suffixed with -ung, Pages with entries Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 6 10 31 33 20 Disambiguation of German terms suffixed with -ung: 11 15 29 29 15 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 20 26 21 19 Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, poetry, publishing, writing
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: Blutdrucksenkung, Preissenkung, Steuersenkung

Inflected forms

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        },
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          "kind": "other",
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      ],
      "id": "en-Senkung-de-noun-vDNH3o6M",
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      ],
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        "literature",
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  ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈzɛŋkʊŋ/"
    },
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      "ipa": "[ˈzɛŋkʰʊŋ]"
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      "tags": [
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        ],
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        ],
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          "fall",
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        ],
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          "descent"
        ]
      ],
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        "geography",
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    },
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      ],
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      ],
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        "media",
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  ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈzɛŋkʊŋ/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈzɛŋkʰʊŋ]"
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      "tags": [
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  "word": "Senkung"
}

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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.