Noun
der Senator
senator (member in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, or of the executive branch of city government in Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg)
B2
rank #4,091
plural Senatoren
Meanings
Noun
- senator (member in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, or of the executive branch of city government in Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg)
Example sentence
Es interessierte die Senatoren sehr, was er zu sagen hatte.
The senators were very interested in what he had to say.
Word forms
singular
der Senator
plural
die Senatoren
The four cases
Singular
Nominativeder Senator
Accusativeden Senator
Dativedem Senator
Genitivedes Senators
Plural
Nominativedie Senatoren
Accusativedie Senatoren
Dativeden Senatoren
Genitiveder Senatoren
Usage
- ein Senator / die Senatoren — The plural adds -en; singular Senator is not a weak noun.
- die Senatorin — The feminine form for a senator.
Der Senator beantwortete die Fragen der Studierenden.
The senator answered the students' questions.