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Brigade

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Noun

die Brigade

brigade, military unit

C1 rank #7,510 plural Brigaden

Meanings

Noun
  1. brigade, military unit
  2. the smallest work-group in an industrial plant

Example sentence

Zur Brigade gehören mehrere tausend Soldaten.

Several thousand soldiers belong to the brigade.

Word forms

singular die Brigade
plural die Brigaden

The four cases

Singular

Nominativedie Brigade
Accusativedie Brigade
Dativeder Brigade
Genitiveder Brigade

Plural

Nominativedie Brigaden
Accusativedie Brigaden
Dativeden Brigaden
Genitiveder Brigaden

Usage

  • eine Brigade verlegen — Move a military brigade to another location.
  • Brigade / Brigaden — A military formation; historically also a work team in some industrial contexts.
Extra sentence

Die Brigade wurde im Roman an die Grenze verlegt.

In the novel, the brigade was moved to the border.