Kapital
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian capitale (“(economic) capital”), from Latin capitālis.
Pronunciation
Noun
Kapital n (strong, genitive Kapitals or (rare) Kapitales, plural (rare) Kapitale or Kapitalien)
- (economics, Marxism, rarely in the plural) capital
- 1894, Karl Marx, edited by Friedrich Engels, Das Kapital […] , III: Der Gesammtprocess der kapitalistischen Produktion, Hamburg: Otto Meissner, page 1:
- In ihrer wirklichen Bewegung treten sich die Kapitale in solchen konkreten Formen gegenüber, für die die Gestalt des Kapitals im unmittelbaren Productionsprocess, wie seine Gestalt im Cirkulationsprocess, nur als besondere Momente erscheinen.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (East Germany, only singular) capitalists collectively
Declension
Declension of Kapital [neuter, strong]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | das | Kapital | die | Kapitale1, Kapitalien1 |
genitive | eines | des | Kapitals, Kapitales1 | der | Kapitale1, Kapitalien1 |
dative | einem | dem | Kapital, Kapitale1,2 | den | Kapitalen1, Kapitalien1 |
accusative | ein | das | Kapital | die | Kapitale1, Kapitalien1 |
1Rare.
2Now rare, see notes.
Derived terms
Compound nouns ending with -kapital
Compound nouns beginning with Kapital-
Descendants
- → Yiddish: קאַפּיטאַל (kapital)
Further reading
- “Kapital” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Kapital” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Kapital” in Duden online
- Kapital on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
Noun
Kapital m
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