Nachbar

== German == === Alternative forms === Nachbauer, Nachbaur (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle High German nāchbūr, nāchbūre, nāchgebūr, nāchgebūre, from Old High German nāhgibūr, nāhgibūro, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhwagabūrō, from Proto-Germanic *nēhwagabūrô (“neighbour”). Equivalent to nah, nach (“near, next, after”) + Bauer (“dweller, farmer”). The first component underwent pre-cluster shortening, the second was monophthongized from Early Modern German Baur (and then possibly associated with the unrelated suffix -bar). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈnaxbaːr/, [ˈnaχbaː(ɐ̯)], [-baːʁ], [-baːɾ] (standard) IPA(key): /ˈnaxbər/, [ˈnaχbɐ] (common variant) IPA(key): /ˈnaːxbaːr/ (chiefly obsolete, still regionally in Switzerland) === Noun === Nachbar m (weak or mixed, genitive Nachbarn or (more informal) Nachbars, plural Nachbarn, feminine Nachbarin) neighbour ==== Usage notes ==== The word can be declined according to the weak or mixed group. Both ways are standard, but weak declension is more common in formal usage, mixed declension in colloquial usage. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “Nachbar” in Duden online “Nachbar”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “Nachbar” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon