Fall

Meaning

1. (masculine, strong) fall, drop (the act of falling or an instance thereof)
2. (masculine, strong) fall, capture (the act of being seized by enemy forces)
3. (masculine, strong) fall; the loss of one's innocence, honour, reputation, fortune, etc.
4. (masculine, strong) case (actual event, situation, or fact)
5. (masculine, strong) case (instance or event as a topic of study)
6. (masculine, strong) case (piece of work subject to case handling in an authority, court, customer support etc.)
7. (masculine, strong) case (piece of work subject to case handling in an authority, court, customer support etc.)
8. (masculine, strong) case (kind of inflection of a nominal)

Concepts

case

fall

drop

downfall

item

matter

collapse

affair

thing

decline

grammatical case

event

stuff

occasion

falling

object

halyard

slump

instance

article

issue

subject

something

spill

story

surrender

thingamajig

thingy

trip

usual

waterfall

whatchamacallit

falling out

Computer-Aided Software Engineering

CASE

matter in question

losing one’s standing

being overthrown

depression

prima facie case

drop

fall

fall

business

cadence

come down

concern

crashing

degradation

descent

Synonyms

Gelegenheit

Geschehnis

Vorfall

Ereignis

Begebenheit

Kasus

Sturz

Sache

Angelegenheit

Absturz

Untergang

Sinken

Fallen

Abfall

Sachverhalt

Gegenstand

Ding

Umstand

Affäre

Bedingung

Chose

Materie

Einsturz

Thematik

Zusammenbruch

Themenstellung

Kernpunkt

Kern

Werk

Themengebiet

Umstände

Herunterfallen

Verfall

Objekt

Situation

Verhältnisse

Niedergang

Gegebenheit

Fragestellung

Akte

Frage

❓

fallen

beachten

Fälle

etwas

Aufgabenstellung

Abhang

Landung

Niederlage

Lage

Translations

cas

caso

chute

val

caso

🎲

caduta

casus

caída

naamval

caso

queda

geval

πτώση

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

fall

Basel-Landschaft

faal

Fribourg

fall

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fal/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: val

Inherited from Old High German: fal

Cognate with Dutch: val

Cognate with English: fall

In summary

From Middle High German val, from Old High German fal, from Proto-West Germanic *fall.
Cognate with Dutch val, English fall. The sense “case” in all its shapes is a calque of Latin casus.

Sentences

Das wollen wir auf jeden Fall verhindern .

We definitely want to prevent that.

Der Fall ist glasklar .

The case is crystal clear.

Wir alle erinnern uns an den Fall Fourniret.

We all remember the Fourniret case.

Er verhält sich wie eine Eidechse im freien Fall .

It behaves like a lizard in free fall.

Auch in diesem Fall lag es an einem gestörten Verhältnis zur Mannschaft .

In this case, too, it was due to a disturbed relationship with the team.

Was wirklich hinter dem unfairen Wettbewerb in diesem Fall steckt , ist der schwache Dollar .

What's really behind the unfair competition in this case is the weak dollar.