Prozent
Appearance
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Perzent
- Percent, per Centum, per Cento (obsolete)
- Procent, pro Cent, pro Centum, pro Cento, pro cento (obsolete)
- Prct., pCt., prCt. (abbreviation, obsolete)
- %
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian per cento, from Latin per (“through, by”) and centum (“hundred”), modified by the influence of Latin pro (“for”) or German pro.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Prozent n (strong, genitive Prozentes or Prozents, plural Prozente)
- percent
- Synonyms: Hundertstel, vom Hundert, von Hundert
- 2010, Der Spiegel[1], number 2/2010, page 125:
- Kohlendioxid trägt durch seine Menge mehr als jedes andere Treibhausgas zum Klimawandel bei, doch seine Konzentration in der Luft beträgt weniger als 0,04 Prozent.
- Carbon dioxide contributes by its amount more than any other greenhouse gas to climate change, but its concentration in the air is less than 0.04 percent.
Usage notes
[edit]The plural Prozente is only used to mean different percent values or percentages: „Was sind die genauen Prozente für A und B?“ "What are the exact percentages of A and B?" Otherwise, like in English, the singular is used: fünfzig Prozent "fifty percent".
Declension
[edit]Declension of Prozent [neuter, strong]
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Polish: procent
- → Kashubian: procent
- → Silesian: procynt
- → Russian: проце́нт (procént)
- → Serbo-Croatian: про̀цент
Further reading
[edit]- “Prozent” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Prozent” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Prozent” in Duden online
- Prozent on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Hunsrik
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Prozent m
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