Handpuppe

German

Etymology

Etymology tree

German Hand

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-der.?

Latin pūpus

Latin pupabor.

German Puppe

German Handpuppe

From Hand (“hand”) +‎ Puppe (“doll”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Handpuppe f (genitive Handpuppe, plural Handpuppen)

1. hand puppet

   Coordinate term: Fingerpuppe

Declension

Declension of Handpuppe [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Handpuppe	die	Handpuppen
genitive	einer	der	Handpuppe	der	Handpuppen
dative	einer	der	Handpuppe	den	Handpuppen
accusative	eine	die	Handpuppe	die	Handpuppen

Further reading

• “Handpuppe” in Duden online
• “Handpuppe”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)