Status

See also: status, Statūs, statūs, and státus

German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin status. Doublet of Staat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃtaːtʊs/ (common)
• IPA^(key): /ˈstaːtʊs/ (chiefly learned variant; singular or plural)
• IPA^(key): /ˈstaːˌtuːs/ (learned variant for the plural)

• Audio:

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Noun

Status m (strong, genitive Status, plural Status or Statusse or (proscribed) Stati)

1. status (standing)
2. status (notification in social networking)
3. state (situation)

Usage notes

• The traditional plural is Status (rarely spelled Statūs), but Statusse is more common in speech and also readily attestable in edited texts. In the context of social networking, Statusse seems even strongly predominant.

Declension

Declension of Status [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Status	die	Status, Statusse
genitive	eines	des	Status	der	Status, Statusse
dative	einem	dem	Status	den	Status, Statussen
accusative	einen	den	Status	die	Status, Statusse

Further reading

• “Status” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Status” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Status” in Duden online
• Status on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de