Knäckebrot

German

Alternative forms

• Knäcke (informal clipping)
• Knackbrot (full calque, rare)

Etymology

Partial calque of Swedish knäckebröd. The first component is unaltered from Swedish knäcka (“to crack, snap”). German-speakers commonly analyse it as knacken +‎ Brot, which is ultimately both semantically and etymologically correct.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈknɛkəˌbʁoːt/

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• Hyphenation: Knä‧cke‧brot; until 1996: Knäk‧ke‧brot

Noun

Knäckebrot n (strong, genitive Knäckebrots or Knäckebrotes, plural Knäckebrote)

1. crispbread

Declension

Declension of Knäckebrot [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Knäckebrot	die	Knäckebrote
genitive	eines	des	Knäckebrots, Knäckebrotes	der	Knäckebrote
dative	einem	dem	Knäckebrot, Knäckebrote1	den	Knäckebroten
accusative	ein	das	Knäckebrot	die	Knäckebrote

¹Now rare, see notes.

Further reading

• “Knäckebrot” in Duden online