Kauf

See also: kauf and käuf

German

Etymology

From Old High German kouf, from Proto-Germanic *kaupaz, *kaupô (“inn-keeper, merchant”), *kaupōną, *kaupijaną (“to buy, purchase”), from Latin caupo (“tradesman, innkeeper, huckster”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaup-, *ḱaup-, *kwap-, *ḱwap- (“merchant”), related to Ancient Greek κάπηλος (kápēlos, “huckster”). Cognate with English cheap, North Frisian keap (“purchase”), West Frisian keap (“purchase, buy, acquisition”), Dutch koop (“buy, purchase, deal”), kopen (“to buy, purchase, shop”), Low German kopen (“to buy”), Swedish köp (“bargain, purchase”), köpa (“to buy, purchase”), Icelandic kaup (“purchase, bargain”), kaupa (“to purchase”), Finnish kauppa (“shop”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaʊ̯f/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -aʊ̯f

Noun

Kauf m (genitive Kaufs or Kaufes, plural Käufe)

  1. purchase

Declension
Declension of Kauf
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Kauf die Käufe
genitive eines des Kaufes,
Kaufs		 der Käufe
dative einem dem Kauf,
Kaufe1		 den Käufen
accusative einen den Kauf die Käufe
1Now uncommon, see notes

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Further reading
  • Kauf in Duden online
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