Masculine

Osten

Sentences
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Er   liegt   im   Osten   des   Landes   in   der   Region  Lubombo.

It is located in the east of the country in the Lubombo region.

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Meaning

  1. (masculine, no-plural, strong) East
  2. (masculine, no-plural, strong, with-definite-article) The territory of the former GDR.
  3. (broadly, masculine, no-plural, strong) anything that is Eastern, e.g. Eastern Europe, Asia

Frequency

B2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

oschte

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɔstən/
Etymology

In summary

From Ost or Old High German ostan, from Proto-Germanic *austrą, related to *ausos (“dawn”), compare Latin aurora, and Latin auster, which, probably due to a re-orientation, means "South".

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