Basketball

See also: basketball and basket-ball

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English basketball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːskətˌbal/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Audio; “Basketballs”:

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Noun

Basketball m (strong, genitive Basketballes or Basketballs, plural Basketbälle)

1. basketball

Declension

Declension of Basketball [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Basketball	die	Basketbälle
genitive	eines	des	Basketballes, Basketballs	der	Basketbälle
dative	einem	dem	Basketball, Basketballe1	den	Basketbällen
accusative	einen	den	Basketball	die	Basketbälle

¹Now rare, see notes.

Related terms

• Basketballspieler, Basketballer
• Basketballspielerin, Basketballerin
• Basketballfeld, Basketballkorb

Further reading

• “Basketball” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Basketball” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Basketball” in Duden online
• Basketball on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From English basketball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːsketˌbal/, [ˈbaːskədˌbɑl]

Noun

Basketball m (plural Basketbäll)

1. basketball (ball)
2. (uncountable) basketball (sport)