Grube

See also: grube and grübe

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡʀuːbə/
Hyphenation: Gru‧be
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Etymology 1

From Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghrebh- (“to dig, scrape, bury”). Cognate with English groove.

Noun

Grube f (genitive Grube, plural Gruben, diminutive Grübchen n)

pit
(mining) mine

Declension

Declension of Grube

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Grube	die	Gruben
genitive	einer	der	Grube	der	Gruben
dative	einer	der	Grube	den	Gruben
accusative	eine	die	Grube	die	Gruben

Derived terms

Descendants

Danish: grube
Swedish: gruva

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Grube n (genitive Grubes)

A municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Further reading

Grube in Duden online

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