Kasten

See also: kasten and Kästen

German

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkastn̩/
  • Hyphenation: Kas‧ten; pre-1996: Ka‧sten

Etymology 1

From Middle High German kaste, from Old High German kasto, from Proto-West Germanic *kastō.

Noun

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  1. crate (e.g. for bottles)
  2. (regional, Germany) box, case
  3. (regional, Switzerland, Austria and parts of Southern German) cupboard
Usage notes
  • The normal plural is Kästen; the unchanged plural Kasten is now widely obsolete. (In the 19th century, however, the umlaut form was still deprecated as “wrong”, for example in Grimm's Deutsches Wörterbuch.)
Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Hyponyms
Derived terms
  • kastenartig
  • Kastenbeschlag
  • Kastenbrot
  • Kastendeckel
  • Kastenform
  • Kastenholz
  • Kastenwagen

See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

Kasten f pl

  1. plural of Kaste

Further reading
  • “Kasten” in Duden online
  • “Kasten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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