Scharteke
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Middle Low German, perhaps from French charte.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Scharteke f (genitive Scharteke, plural Scharteken)
- (archaic, derogatory) old and worthless book
- Synonym: Schwarte
- 1908 [1900], Hermann Lauscher [pseudonym; Hermann Hesse], Hinterlassene Schriften und Gedichte von Hermann Lauscher[1]:
- Der mitgebrachte Plato liegt auf dem Tisch. Elende Scharteke! Was ist mir Plato? Ich muß Menschen sehen, Wagen fahren hören, neue Bücher und Zeitungen aufschneiden und den frischen, unreifen Duft des schnellen Lebens atmen, […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (derogatory) uncongenial old woman
- Synonym: Schabracke
Declension
[edit]Declension of Scharteke [feminine]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | eine | die | Scharteke | die | Scharteken |
genitive | einer | der | Scharteke | der | Scharteken |
dative | einer | der | Scharteke | den | Scharteken |
accusative | eine | die | Scharteke | die | Scharteken |
Further reading
[edit]- “Scharteke” in Duden online
- “Scharteke” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Scharteke”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 623
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