Nacht

== German == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle High German naht, from Old High German naht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /naxt/, [naχt], [nɑxt] === Noun === Nacht f (genitive Nacht, plural Nächte, diminutive Nächtchen n) night darkness ==== Usage notes ==== In contemporary German, Nacht is used somewhat differently than English night. Although Nacht can be a general term for the dark hours of the day, when used as a time measurement it refers only to those hours when most ordinary people are in bed (roughly 11 p.m. till 6 a.m.). So while one says in English: “Let's have a beer tonight!”, in German one needs to say: Lass uns heute Abend ein Bier trinken! (“Let's have a beer this evening!”) In English, one says in the night or in the day referring to a time of day, but on that night or on that day referring to a date. German, instead, always uses in with Nacht and always uses an with Tag (except when the latter simply means “time, era”, e.g. in jenen Tagen (“in those days”)). A (masculine) genitive Nachts occurs only in the phrases des Nachts (“at night”) and eines Nachts (“one night”) and alone as the adverbial genitive Nachts (cp. nachts). ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== heinacht, Fastnacht, Mitternacht, Sternennacht Nachtblindheit f, Nachtschatten ==== See also ==== === Further reading === “Nacht” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “Nacht” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Nacht” in Duden online Nacht on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de “Nacht” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961. == Hunsrik == === Alternative forms === naacht (Wiesemann spelling system) === Etymology === Inherited from Middle High German naht, from Old High German naht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈnaxt/ Rhymes: -axt Syllabification: Nacht === Noun === Nacht f (plural Necht) night === Further reading === Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Nacht”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch == Low German == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle Low German nacht, from Old Saxon naht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /naxt/ === Noun === Nacht f (plural Nachten) night === Further reading === Der neue SASS: Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch, Plattdeutsch - Hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch - Plattdeutsch. Plattdeutsche Rechtschreibung, sixth revised edition (2011, →ISBN, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster) == North Frisian == === Alternative forms === naacht (Föhr-Amrum) noach (Heligoland) nåcht (Mooring) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Frisian nacht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. === Noun === Nacht m or f (plural Nachter) (Sylt) night == Pennsylvania German == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle High German naht, from Old High German naht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. === Noun === Nacht f (plural Nachde) night