Kader

See also: kader

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French cadre.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaːdɐ/

Noun

Kader n, m (genitive Kaders, plural Kader)

  1. (sports) squad (body of the players of a team or club)
  2. (military) cadre (body of officers forming a new regiment)
  3. (Marxism) cadre (the ideologically trained elite, which is to fill all public and economic leadership positions)
  4. (Marxism, more commonly) cadre; leader (an individual in the above elite)
  5. (figuratively) a highly skilled or highly motivated person or group of persons

Usage notes

The neuter gender is used alongside the masculine gender in Swiss German.

Declension

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “Kader”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological dictionary of the German language] (in German), 22nd edition, →ISBN

Further reading

Luxembourgish

Noun

Kader m (plural Kaderen)

  1. frame (of windows and doors)
  2. frame (of a picture)
  3. frame (of a bicycle)
  4. (sports) squad (body of the players of a team or club)
  5. workload, job

Synonyms

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