Declension of German noun Leutnant with plural and article

The declension of the noun Leutnant (lieutenant, second lieutenant) is in singular genitive Leutnants and in the plural nominative Leutnants/Leutnante. The noun Leutnant is declined with the declension endings s/s/e. The voice of Leutnant is maskuline and the article "der". Here you can not only inflect Leutnant but also all German nouns. The noun is part of the thesaurus of Zertifikat Deutsch respectivly Level C2. Comments ☆

C2 · noun · masculine · regular⁴ · -s, -s · -s, -e⁴

der Leutnant

Leutnants · Leutnants⁰/Leutnante⁰⁴

Endings s/s/e   Dative plural without additional 'n'   Shortening of the genitive ending to 's'  

⁴ Usage seldom⁰ Depends on meaning

English lieutenant, second lieutenant

/ˈlɔɪtnant/ · /ˈlɔɪtnants/ · /ˈlɔɪtnants/

[Militär, …] Offiziersdienstgrad unter dem Oberleutnant, der untere Dienstgrad variiert nach Streitkraft; Offiziersdienstgrad über dem Unterleutnant, später auch in der Volksmarine gebräuchlich; Leutnant zur See

» Leutnant Müller war Zugführer. English Lieutenant Müller was the squad leader.

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Declension of Leutnant in singular and plural in all cases

Singular

Nom. derLeutnant
Gen. desLeutnants
Dat. demLeutnant
Acc. denLeutnant

Plural

Nom. dieLeutnants⁰/Leutnante⁰⁴
Gen. derLeutnants⁰/Leutnante⁰⁴
Dat. denLeutnants⁰/Leutnanten⁰⁴
Acc. dieLeutnants⁰/Leutnante⁰⁴

⁴ Usage seldom⁰ Depends on meaning

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Examples

Example sentences for Leutnant

  • Leutnant Müller war Zugführer. 
    English Lieutenant Müller was the squad leader.
  • Er ist Leutnant der Reserve. 
    English He is a reserve lieutenant.
  • Einige Stunden verstrichen bis der Leutnant hereinkam. 
    English Several hours passed before the lieutenant came in.
  • Auch er gegen Demonstrationen, das schadet nur, sagte der Leutnant in ihm. 
    English He is also against demonstrations, it only harms, said the lieutenant in him.
  • Die Lehrer in der Elementarschule kamen mir wie Feldwebel vor und die Lehrer im Gymnasium wie Leutnants . 
    English The teachers in elementary school seemed to me like sergeants, and the teachers in high school like lieutenants.
  • Die jungen Leutnants wurden als Stampfer engagiert. 
    English The young lieutenants were hired as compactors.
  • Leutnant Fabian war allerdings ein anderer Führer als Eger. 
    English Lieutenant Fabian was, however, a different leader than Eger.
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Translation of German Leutnant

German Leutnant
English lieutenant, second lieutenant
Russian лейтенант, лейтена́нт, пору́чик
Spanish teniente, subteniente, alférez, lugarteniente
French lieutenant, sous-lieutenant, lieutenante
Turkish teğmen
Portuguese tenente
Italian tenente, sottotenente, luogotenente
Romanian locotenent
Hungarian hadnagy
Polish porucznik, lejtnant, podporucznik
Greek Λοχαγός, Λοχίας, ανθυπολοχαγός
Dutch luitenant, onderluitenant, tweede luitenant
Czech poručík
Swedish löjtnant, fänrik
Danish løjtnant, Løjtnant
Japanese 中尉, 少尉
Catalan tenent, lieutenant, tinent, tinenta
Finnish luutnantti
Norwegian løytnant
Basque teniente
Serbian poručnik
Macedonian поручник
Slovenian poročnik
Slowakisch poručík
Bosnian poručnik
Croatian poručnik
Ukrainian лейтенант
Bulgarian лейтенант
Belorussian лейтэнант
Indonesian letnan
Vietnamese thiếu úy
Uzbek leytenant
Hindi लेफ्टनंट, लेफ्टनेंट, लेफ्टिनेंट
Chinese 中尉, 少尉
Thai ร้อยตรี
Korean 소위
Azerbaijani leytenant
Georgian ლეიტანტი, ლეიტენანტი
Bengali লেফটেন্যান্ট
Albanian lejtant, lejtnant, leutant
Marathi लेफ्टनंट
Nepali लेफ्टनन्ट, लेफ्टिनेन्ट
Telugu లెఫ్టనెంట్
Latvian leitnants
Tamil லெஃப்டன்ட், லெப்டினன்ட், லைடன்ட்
Estonian leitnant
Armenian լեյտենանտ
Kurdish lejtnant, leyenant, lêwtinant
Hebrewסגן
Arabicملازم
Persianستوان
Urduلیفٹیننٹ

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Meanings and synonyms of Leutnant
  • [Militär] Offiziersdienstgrad unter dem Oberleutnant, der untere Dienstgrad variiert nach Streitkraft, Leutnant zur See
  • Offiziersdienstgrad über dem Unterleutnant, später auch in der Volksmarine gebräuchlich
  • [Militär] Offizier im Range eines eines Leutnants, im weiteren Sinne auch der Unterleutnant und der Oberleutnant sowie ihre Äquivalente bei der Marine als Teil der Laufbahngruppe der Leutnante
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Declension forms of Leutnant

Summary of all declension forms of the noun Leutnant in all cases

The declension of Leutnant as a table with all forms in singular (singular) and plural (plural) and in all four cases nominative (1st case), genitive (2nd case), dative (3rd case) and accusative (4th case). Especially for German learners the correct declension of the word Leutnant is crucial.

Declension Leutnant

Singular Plural
Nom. der Leutnant die Leutnants/Leutnante
Gen. des Leutnants der Leutnants/Leutnante
Dat. dem Leutnant den Leutnants/Leutnanten
Acc. den Leutnant die Leutnants/Leutnante

Declension Leutnant

  • Singular: der Leutnant, des Leutnants, dem Leutnant, den Leutnant
  • Plural: die Leutnants/Leutnante, der Leutnants/Leutnante, den Leutnants/Leutnanten, die Leutnants/Leutnante

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⁴ usage seldom

* Definitions come partly from Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org)> and may have been changed afterwards. They are freely available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) license: 165009, 165009, 165009

* Sentences by Tatoeba (tatoeba.org) are freely available under the CC BY 2.0 FR (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/fr/). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 9589391, 1268159, 2426857

* Sentences from the Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org) are freely available under the license CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.de). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 142726, 165009, 76929, 18816

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