Bundeskriminalamt

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bundeskriminalamt.

Proper noun

Bundeskriminalamt

1. The German federal office of criminal investigations.
   • 1988 April 2, Lori Kenschaft, “German feminists rounded up”, in Gay Community News, page 6:

     Thirty-three simultaneous raids by the Bundeskriminalamt - the German equivalent of the FBI - targeted feminist activists who have researched and spoken out against reproductive and genetic engineering.

German

Alternative forms

• BKA (initialism)

Etymology

From Bund +‎ -es- +‎ Kriminalamt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊndəskʁimiˌnaːlʔamt/
• Hyphenation: Bun‧des‧kri‧mi‧nal‧amt

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Bundeskriminalamt n (strong, genitive Bundeskriminalamtes or Bundeskriminalamts, plural Bundeskriminalämter)

1. federal office of criminal investigations.

Declension

Declension of Bundeskriminalamt [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Bundeskriminalamt	die	Bundeskriminalämter
genitive	eines	des	Bundeskriminalamtes, Bundeskriminalamts	der	Bundeskriminalämter
dative	einem	dem	Bundeskriminalamt, Bundeskriminalamte1	den	Bundeskriminalämtern
accusative	ein	das	Bundeskriminalamt	die	Bundeskriminalämter

¹Now rare, see notes.

Further reading

• “Bundeskriminalamt” in Duden online
• “Bundeskriminalamt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Bundeskriminalamt” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• Bundeskriminalamt on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de