Bürgschaft

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German bürgeschaft, from Old High German burgiscaf. By surface analysis, Bürge (“guarantor”) +‎ -schaft (“-ship”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbʏʁkʃaft/ Hyphenation: Bürg‧schaft === Noun === Bürgschaft f (genitive Bürgschaft, plural Bürgschaften) suretyship guarantee ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Proper noun === die Bürgschaft f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Bürgschaft) The Pledge, a 1799 poem by Schiller (one of the most famous German poems) === Further reading === “Bürgschaft” in Duden online “Bürgschaft” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache