Tagebau

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Tag (“day”) +‎ -e- +‎ Bau (“building, winning, mining”). The first component refers to the (sun-lit) surface of the earth, as in the mining terms unter Tage (“below ground”) and über Tage (“above ground”). The second component is used in the sense of Abbau; compare Raubbau.

Pronunciation
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Noun

Tagebau m (strong, genitive Tagebaus or Tagebaues, plural Tagebaue)

  1. open-pit mining, opencast mining
  2. open-pit mine

Declension
Declension of Tagebau [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Tagebau die Tagebaue
genitive eines des Tagebaus, Tagebaues der Tagebaue
dative einem dem Tagebau, Tagebaue1 den Tagebauen
accusative einen den Tagebau die Tagebaue

1Now rare, see notes.

Antonyms

Further reading
  • “Tagebau” in Duden online
  • “Tagebau” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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