Bernauer

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bernauer.

Proper noun

Bernauer (plural Bernauers)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bernauer is the 41579^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 523 individuals. Bernauer is most common among White (94.84%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bernauer”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 145.

German

Etymology

From Bernau +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛʁnaʊ̯ɐ]
• Hyphenation: Ber‧nau‧er

Noun

Bernauer m (strong, genitive Bernauers, plural Bernauer, feminine Bernauerin)

1. a native or inhabitant of Bernau

Declension

Declension of Bernauer [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Bernauer	die	Bernauer
genitive	eines	des	Bernauers	der	Bernauer
dative	einem	dem	Bernauer	den	Bernauern
accusative	einen	den	Bernauer	die	Bernauer

Adjective

Bernauer (indeclinable, no predicative form)

1. (relational) Bernau

Usage notes

• Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted by Duden, DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See -er for more.

Related terms

• Adenauer, Dernauer, Hanauer, Reichenauer, Steinauer

Proper noun

Bernauer m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Bernauers or (with an article) Bernauer, feminine genitive Bernauer, plural Bernauers or Bernauer)

1. a surname

Related terms

• Adenauer, Lindauer, Hanauer, Hauer, Steinauer, Schongauer