Allerseelen

German

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌalɐˈzeːlən/
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Proper noun

Allerseelen n (proper noun, strong, genitive Allerseelen, plural Allerseelen)

  1. (especially Roman Catholicism) All Souls' Day

Usage notes
  • The holiday is not kept by Protestants in Germany, who instead remember the dead on Totensonntag (Sunday before Advent Sunday).
  • The genitive and plural are widely avoided. The genitive could only be used at all with an adjective: des letzten Allerseelen (“of the last All Souls' Day”).

Declension
Declension of Allerseelen [neuter, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein das Allerseelen die Allerseelen
genitive eines des Allerseelen der Allerseelen
dative einem dem Allerseelen den Allerseelen
accusative ein das Allerseelen die Allerseelen

Derived terms
  • Allerseelentag
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