Declension of German noun Major with plural and article

The declension of the noun Major (major) is in singular genitive Majors and in the plural nominative Majore. The noun Major is declined with the declension endings s/e. It can also be used with other endings. The voice of Major is maskuline and the article "der". The noun can also be used with other genus and other articles. Here you can not only inflect Major but also all German nouns. The noun is part of the thesaurus of Zertifikat Deutsch respectivly Level C2. Comments ☆

masculine, -s, -e
Major, der
feminine, -, -s
Major⁴, die

C2 · noun · masculine · regular · -s, -e

der Major

Majors · Majore

Endings s/e   Shortening of the genitive ending to 's'  

English major

/ˈmaːjoːɐ̯/ · /ˈmaːjoːɐ̯s/ · /ˈmaːjoːʁə/

[Militär, …] Stabsoffiziersdienstgrad zwischen dem Stabshauptmann und Oberstleutnant; Offizier, der den Dienstgrad eines Majors innehat; Korvettenkapitän, SS-Sturmbannführer

» Der Major steht über dem Hauptmann. English The major stands above the captain.

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Declension of Major in singular and plural in all cases

Singular

Nom. derMajor
Gen. desMajors
Dat. demMajor
Acc. denMajor

Plural

Nom. dieMajore
Gen. derMajore
Dat. denMajoren
Acc. dieMajore
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Examples

Example sentences for Major

  • Der Major steht über dem Hauptmann. 
    English The major stands above the captain.
  • Der Major kam sehr regelmäßig ins Krankenhaus. 
    English The major came to the hospital very regularly.
  • Ein Major musste das Kommando über die Division übernehmen. 
    English A major had to take command of the division.
  • Gegen Mittag überbrachte ihr die Ordonnanz vom Vortag einen Brief des Majors , in dem er sie noch für den Abend des gleichen Tages zum Essen einlud. 
    English Around noon, the orderly from the previous day brought her a letter from the major, in which he invited her to dinner that same evening.
  • Der Major gehört der Dienstgradgruppe der Stabsoffiziere an, deren niedrigster Dienstgrad er ist. 
    English The major belongs to the rank group of staff officers, of which he is the lowest rank.
  • Am Kai trafen wir eine große Gruppe Marinesoldaten, die unter Major Smith anrückten. 
    English At the quay, we met a large group of marines advancing under Major Smith.
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Translations

Translation of German Major

German Major
English major
Russian майор, майо́р
Spanish mayor, comandante
French commandant, chef d'escadron, chef de bataillon, major
Turkish binbaşı, majo, yarbay
Portuguese major
Italian Maggiore, maggiore
Romanian căpitan
Hungarian ezredes, főhadnagy
Polish major
Greek Ταγματάρχης, ταγματάρχης
Dutch majoor, Majoor
Czech major, majora
Swedish major
Danish major
Japanese メジャー, 大尉
Catalan capità
Finnish majuri
Basque majore
Macedonian мајор
Slowakisch majora
Ukrainian майор
Bulgarian майор
Belorussian маёр
Indonesian Mayor
Vietnamese Thiếu tá, Trung tá
Uzbek mayor
Hindi मेज़र, मैजर
Chinese 少校
Thai พันโท, ร้อยโท
Korean 소령
Azerbaijani mayor
Georgian მაიორი
Bengali মেজর
Albanian majore
Marathi मेजर
Nepali मेजर
Telugu మేజర్
Latvian majors
Tamil மேஜர்
Armenian մայոր
Kurdish binbaşı
Hebrewרב-סרן
Arabicرائد، عقيد
Persianسرهنگ
Urduمیجر

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Definitions

Meanings and synonyms of Major
  • [Militär] Stabsoffiziersdienstgrad zwischen dem Stabshauptmann und Oberstleutnant, Korvettenkapitän, SS-Sturmbannführer
  • Offizier, der den Dienstgrad eines Majors innehat, Korvettenkapitän, SS-Sturmbannführer
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Declension forms of Major

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

The declension of Major 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 Major is crucial.

Declension Major

Singular Plural
Nom. der Major die Majore
Gen. des Majors der Majore
Dat. dem Major den Majoren
Acc. den Major die Majore

Declension Major

  • Singular: der Major, des Majors, dem Major, den Major
  • Plural: die Majore, der Majore, den Majoren, die Majore

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* 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: 187020, 266844, 187020, 810029

* 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: 5321508, 2344891

* 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: 187020, 187020

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