Declension of German noun Nelke with plural and article

The declension of the noun Nelke (carnation, clove) is in singular genitive Nelke and in the plural nominative Nelken. The noun Nelke is declined with the declension endings -/n. The voice of Nelke is feminine and the article "die". Here you can not only inflect Nelke but also all German nouns. The noun is part of the thesaurus of Zertifikat Deutsch respectivly Level A1. Comments ☆

A1 · noun · feminine · regular · -, -en-

die Nelke

Nelke · Nelken

Endings -/n   Shortening of plural endings to 'n'   Dative plural without additional 'n'  

English carnation, clove, pink, dianthus

/ˈnɛlkə/ · /ˈnɛlkə/ · /ˈnɛlkən/

[Pflanzen, …] schmalblättrige, weiß bis rotviolett blühende Pflanze; stark duftende und brennend scharf schmeckende, getrocknete Blütenknospen des Gewürznelkenbaums; Gewürznelke, Nägeli, Würznelke

» Es sind Nelken . English They're carnations.

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Declension of Nelke in singular and plural in all cases

Singular

Nom. dieNelke
Gen. derNelke
Dat. derNelke
Acc. dieNelke

Plural

Nom. dieNelken
Gen. derNelken
Dat. denNelken
Acc. dieNelken
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Examples

Example sentences for Nelke

  • Es sind Nelken . 
    English They're carnations.
  • Nelken sind ein Gewürz. 
    English Cloves are a spice.
  • Ich pflanze Nelken für den nächsten Monat. 
    English I plant carnations for the next month.
  • Ich schenkte meiner Mutter rote Nelken zum Muttertag. 
    English I gave my mother carnations on Mother's Day.
  • Er trug eine Nelke im Knopfloch. 
    English He wore a carnation in his buttonhole.
  • Schließlich kam sie doch und warf eine gelbe Nelke in das offene Grab. 
    English Finally, she came and threw a yellow carnation into the open grave.
  • Ich spicke den Schweinebraten mit Nelken . 
    English I pierce the pork roast with cloves.
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Translation of German Nelke

German Nelke
English carnation, clove, pink, dianthus
Russian гвоздика, гвозди́ка
Spanish clavel, clavo
French clou de girofle, œillet
Turkish karanfil
Portuguese cravo, cravo-da-índia
Italian garofano, chiodo di garofano, chiodi di garofano
Romanian cuie, garoafe, garoafă
Hungarian szegfű, szegfűszeg
Polish goździk
Greek γαρίφαλο, γαρύφαλλο, γαρύφαλο
Dutch anjer, kruidnagel
Czech hřebíček, hvozdík, karafiát
Swedish nejlika, kryddnejlika
Danish nellike, nellik
Japanese カーネーション, クローブ
Catalan clavell, clau
Finnish neilikka
Norwegian nellik, kryddernellik
Basque gorringo, nelkak
Serbian karanfili, karanfilić, каранфил
Macedonian каранфил, карфиол, чешне
Slovenian nagelj, nageljn, nageljni, nageljnova žbica
Slowakisch karafiát, klinček
Bosnian karanfili, karanfil
Croatian karanfil, karanfili
Ukrainian гвоздика
Bulgarian карамфил
Belorussian гваздзік, гвоздзіка, гвоздыка
Indonesian anyelir, cengkeh, cengkih
Vietnamese cẩm chướng, hoa cẩm chướng, đinh hương
Uzbek chinnigul, gvozdika, karnatsiya
Hindi कर्नेशन, गुलनार, लवंग, लौंग
Chinese 丁香, 康乃馨
Thai กานพลู, คาร์เนชั่น
Korean 정향, 카네이션
Azerbaijani karnasyon, mixək
Georgian კარნაცია, მიხაკი
Bengali কার্নেশন, লবঙ্গ
Albanian karafil, nelkë
Marathi कार्नेशन, गुलनार, लवंग
Nepali कार्नेशन, लवंग, लौंग
Telugu కార్నేషన్, లవంగం
Latvian krustnagliņa
Tamil கார்னேஷன், கிராம்பு
Estonian karnatsioon, nelk, vürtsnelk
Armenian կարնացիոն, մեխակ
Kurdish karnasyon, qaranfîl, qerenfil
Hebrewציפורן
Arabicقرنفل، قرنفلة
Persianمیخک
Urduقرنفل، لونگ

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Meanings and synonyms of Nelke
  • [Pflanzen] schmalblättrige, weiß bis rotviolett blühende Pflanze
  • stark duftende und brennend scharf schmeckende, getrocknete Blütenknospen des Gewürznelkenbaums, Gewürznelke, Nägeli, Würznelke
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Declension forms of Nelke

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

The declension of Nelke 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 Nelke is crucial.

Declension Nelke

Singular Plural
Nom. die Nelke die Nelken
Gen. der Nelke der Nelken
Dat. der Nelke den Nelken
Acc. die Nelke die Nelken

Declension Nelke

  • Singular: die Nelke, der Nelke, der Nelke, die Nelke
  • Plural: die Nelken, der Nelken, den Nelken, die Nelken

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* 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: 4303072, 1837281, 4312115, 948118, 5208875

* 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: 11600, 11600

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