Saubermann
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]sauber (“clean”) + Mann (“man”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Saubermann m (strong, genitive Saubermannes or Saubermanns, plural Saubermänner, feminine Sauberfrau)
- (humorous, chiefly politics) "Mr. Clean" (Someone with a squeaky clean image or who cares about public morality.)
- 2004, Der Spiegel[1], number 48/2004, page 18:
- Der selbst ernannte Saubermann des Europa-Parlaments […] ist selbst ins Visier der Betrugsermittler der EU geraten.
- The self-declared "Mr. Clean" of the European Parliament […] has himself become a target of the fraud investigators of the EU.
Declension
[edit]Declension of Saubermann [masculine, strong]
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | ein | der | Saubermann | die | Saubermänner |
| genitive | eines | des | Saubermannes, Saubermanns | der | Saubermänner |
| dative | einem | dem | Saubermann, Saubermanne1 | den | Saubermännern |
| accusative | einen | den | Saubermann | die | Saubermänner |
1Now rare, see notes.
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Saubermann” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Saubermann” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Saubermann” in Duden online
Saubermann on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de