Taufe

See also: taufe

German

Alternative forms

Täufe, Tauffe, Täuffe, Teufe, Teuffe (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German toufe, from Old High German toufī, from Proto-West Germanic *daupīni (“dipping, immersion”).

Upper German form with lack of umlaut before a labial; reinforced probably by the fact that the Central German variants clashed with Teufe, older form of Tiefe (“depth”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtaʊ̯fə/
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Hyphenation: Tau‧fe

Noun

Taufe f (genitive Taufe, plural Taufen)

baptism

Declension

Declension of Taufe [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Taufe	die	Taufen
genitive	einer	der	Taufe	der	Taufen
dative	einer	der	Taufe	den	Taufen
accusative	eine	die	Taufe	die	Taufen