unter Tage

Meaning

underground, belowground, in a shaft or tunnel

Concepts

below ground

underground

Opposite of

über Tage, nachts, in der Nacht

Synonyms

unterirdisch

Inneres eines Bergwerks

unter der Erdoberfläche

Etymology

Literally, “under day”. In the mining sense, Tag refers to the (sun-lit) surface of the earth. In the temporal sense, unter is used in the sense of “during”, which is an Upper German idiom, except in the universally common phrase unter der Woche (“during the week”).