Part

See also: Appendix:Variations of "part"

German

Etymology

From Middle High German part f (“share, part, party”), from Old French part, from Latin pars.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /part/, [paʁt], [paɐ̯t], [paːt]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Part m (strong, genitive Partes or Parts, plural Parte or Parts)

1. part; role (that which an actor, singer, or other artist contributes to a performance)
2. (obsolete) part; share; piece (fraction of a whole)

   Synonyms: Teil, Anteil, Stück

3. (obsolete, law) party in a lawsuit

   Synonym: Partei

Usage notes

• The sense “part of a whole” still exists in the word Gegenpart, an elevated synonym of Gegenstück (“counterpart”).

Declension

Declension of Part [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Part	die	Parte, Parts
genitive	eines	des	Partes, Parts	der	Parte, Parts
dative	einem	dem	Part, Parte1	den	Parten, Parts
accusative	einen	den	Part	die	Parte, Parts

¹Now rare, see notes.