Sonntag

German

Etymology

From Middle High German sunne(n)tac, sun(n)tac, from Old High German sunnūntag (9th c.), from late Proto-West Germanic *sunnōn dag (“day of the sun”), a calque of Latin diēs Sōlis (4th c.). Compare Low German Sünndag, Dutch zondag, West Frisian snein, English Sunday, Danish søndag.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈzɔntaːk/, [ˈzɔntʰaˑkʰ] (standard)
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IPA^(key): /ˈzɔntax/ (northern Germany and parts of central Germany; chiefly colloquial)
IPA^(key): /ˈzɔntaːx/ (parts of central Germany; chiefly colloquial)
IPA^(key): /ˈsɔntak/, [-d̥ɑɡ̥] (southern Germany, Austria, Bavaria)

Noun

Sonntag m (strong, genitive Sonntages or Sonntags, plural Sonntage)

Sunday (the first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard)

Declension

Declension of Sonntag [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Sonntag	die	Sonntage
genitive	eines	des	Sonntages, Sonntags	der	Sonntage
dative	einem	dem	Sonntag, Sonntage¹	den	Sonntagen
accusative	einen	den	Sonntag	die	Sonntage

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

See also

(days of the week) Tage der Woche, Wochentage (im weiteren Sinne); Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstag, Freitag, Samstag / Sonnabend, Sonntag ^{(Category: de:Days of the week)}
Sabbat, Schabbat, Schabbes (the biblical seventh day of the week)

Proper noun

Sonntag n (proper noun, genitive Sonntags or (optionally with an article) Sonntag)

A municipality of Vorarlberg, Austria
(historical) Zyndaki (a village in Mrągowo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland)

Further reading

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

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