Ausfall

German

Etymology

aus- +‎ Fall

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: Aus‧fall
  • IPA(key): /ˈaʊ̯sfal/, [ˈʔaʊ̯sfal]

Noun

Ausfall m (strong, genitive Ausfalls or (less common) Ausfalles, plural Ausfälle)

  1. failure, loss, breakdown
  2. outage
  3. deficiency
  4. (military) sortie
  5. (chiefly in the plural) abuse, attack, invective

Declension

Declension of Ausfall [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Ausfall die Ausfälle
genitive eines des Ausfalls, Ausfalles1 der Ausfälle
dative einem dem Ausfall, Ausfalle1,2 den Ausfällen
accusative einen den Ausfall die Ausfälle

1Less common.
2Now rare, see notes.

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Further reading

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