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Kasten
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kasten Kästen
German
Pronunciation
de /ˈkastn̩/
de De-Kasten2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de Kas ten; de Ka sten pre-1996
Etymology 1
de box :inh gmh:kaste<ety:inh<goh:kasto>>
From de gmh kaste, from de goh kasto, from de gmw-pro *kastō.
Noun
m,,^:-[obsolete] Kästchen,Kästlein,Kasterl,Kastl
de regional Germany crate (e.g. for bottles)
de Kiste
de regional Germany box, case
de Kiste
de regional Switzerland Austria and parts of _ southern Germany cupboard
de Schrank
de sports journalistic goal the area inside the goal
de Tor
de im Kasten stehen to play as the goalkeeper to stand inside the box
de colloquial tall person with a broad frame, (absolute) unit, tank
de Schrank
Usage notes
The normal plural is Kästen; the unchanged plural Kasten is now widely obsolete. (In the 19th century, however, the umlaut form was still deprecated as “wrong”, for example in Grimm's Deutsches Wörterbuch.)
Declension
m,,^:-[obsolete]
Hyponyms
de Baukasten Bettkasten Bierkasten Briefkasten Brotkasten Brutkasten Blechkasten Bleistiftkasten Buntstiftkasten Blumenkasten Farbstiftkasten Federkasten Getränkekasten Geigenkasten Gewandkasten Holzkasten Karteikasten Kleiderkasten Küchenkasten Kummerkasten Leierkasten Malkasten Postkasten Sandkasten Schmuckkasten Senkkasten Sicherungskasten Starenkasten Stromkasten Stürmerkasten Tuschkasten Verteilerkasten Werkzeugkasten
Derived terms
de kastenartig
de kastenförmig
de compound nouns Kastenbeschlag Kastenbrot Kastendeckel Kastenform Kastenholz Kastenwagen
Descendants
csb kasta 1
See also
de Verpackung
de Paket
de Kiste
de Schachtel
Etymology 2
Noun
de noun form f-p
de Kaste
Further reading
de Containers