Declension of German noun Wels with plural and article

The declension of the noun Wels (catfish, sheatfish) is in singular genitive Welses and in the plural nominative Welse. The noun Wels is declined with the declension endings es/e. The voice of Wels is maskuline and the article "der". Here you can not only inflect Wels but also all German nouns. The noun is part of the thesaurus of Zertifikat Deutsch respectivly Level C2. Comments ☆

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

der Wels

Welses · Welse

Endings es/e  

English catfish, sheatfish, wels

/vɛls/ · /ˈvɛl.zəs/ · /ˈvɛl.zə/

[Tiere, …] Fisch; Waller, Weller, Schaden, Schaid, Schaiden

» Welse haben die längsten Barteln. English Catfish have the longest barbels.

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Declension of Wels in singular and plural in all cases

Singular

Nom. derWels
Gen. desWelses
Dat. demWels/Welse⁶
Acc. denWels

Plural

Nom. dieWelse
Gen. derWelse
Dat. denWelsen
Acc. dieWelse

⁶ Only in exalted use

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Examples

Example sentences for Wels

  • Welse haben die längsten Barteln. 
    English Catfish have the longest barbels.
  • Der Wels bewohnt bevorzugt große, warme Seen und tiefe, langsam fließende Flüsse. 
    English The catfish prefers to inhabit large, warm lakes and deep, slow-flowing rivers.
  • Welse reiben hingegen mit einem Stachel ihrer Brustflosse an ihrem Schultergelenk und produzieren so ganz andere, hochfrequente Laute. 
    English Catfish, on the other hand, rub a spine of their pectoral fin against their shoulder joint and thus produce completely different, high-frequency sounds.
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Translations

Translation of German Wels

German Wels
English catfish, sheatfish, wels
Russian сом
Spanish siluro
French silure, poisson-chat
Turkish sazan, yayın balığı
Portuguese peixe-gato, siluro
Italian pesce, siluro, siluro di Europa
Romanian pește, somn
Hungarian harcsa
Polish sum
Greek ψάρι, γουλιανός, σίλουρος
Dutch meerval
Czech sumec
Swedish mal
Danish malle
Japanese ナマズ
Catalan peix, silur
Finnish silli, monni, säkiä
Basque arrain, arrain katu, siluru
Serbian som, сом
Macedonian риба, сом
Slovenian som
Slowakisch sumec, hrča obyčajná
Bosnian som
Croatian som
Ukrainian сом
Bulgarian бяла риба, сом
Belorussian вугор, сом
Indonesian lele
Hindi कैटफिश
Chinese 鲶鱼
Korean 메기
Hebrewדג
Arabicسمكة
Persianماهی
Urduمچھلی

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Meanings and synonyms of Wels
  • [Tiere] Fisch, Waller, Weller, Schaden, Schaid, Schaiden
  • Fisch
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Declension forms of Wels

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

The declension of Wels 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 Wels is crucial.

Declension Wels

Singular Plural
Nom. der Wels die Welse
Gen. des Welses der Welse
Dat. dem Wels(e) den Welsen
Acc. den Wels die Welse

Declension Wels

  • Singular: der Wels, des Welses, dem Wels(e), den Wels
  • Plural: die Welse, der Welse, den Welsen, die Welse

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* 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: 33971, 33971

* 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: 24203, 33971, 444885, 496891

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