Emmentaler

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English

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Emmental Swiss cheese
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Etymology

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From Alemannic German Emmentaler, from Emmental, a valley in Switzerland.

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Proper noun

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Emmentaler

  1. A Swiss cheese with many holes.

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German

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German Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɛmənˌtaːlɐ/
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  • Hyphenation: Em‧men‧ta‧ler

Noun

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Emmentaler m (strong, genitive Emmentalers, plural Emmentaler)

  1. a native or inhabitant of Emmental/Switzerland
  2. Emmentaler

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Adjective

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Emmentaler (indeclinable, no predicative form)

  1. (relational) of Emmental

Usage notes

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  • 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.
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Further reading

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  • Emmentaler” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache