Engine
See also: engine and enginé
German
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English engine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛnd͡ʒɪn/
- Hyphenation: En‧gine
Noun
Engine f (genitive Engine, plural Engines)
- (software) software engine (core logic of a computer program, without such peripheral aspects as user interface, etc.)
- Hypernym: Computerprogramm
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | Engine | die | Engines |
| genitive | einer | der | Engine | der | Engines |
| dative | einer | der | Engine | den | Engines |
| accusative | eine | die | Engine | die | Engines |
Further reading
- “Engine”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)
- “Engine” in Duden online
- “Engine”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
- “Engine” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon