West-Berlin

German

Alternative forms

• Westberlin, Berlin (West)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛst.bɛʁˌliːn/, /ˌvɛst.bɛʁˈliːn/

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Proper noun

West-Berlin n (proper noun, genitive West-Berlins or (optionally with an article) West-Berlin)

1. West Berlin (the American, British and French sectors of Berlin between 1949 and 1990; the respective areas as part of reunified Berlin)

   Coordinate term: Ost-Berlin

Usage notes

• The spelling Westberlin with no hyphen was particularly common in East German usage, where East Berlin was simply called Berlin or, as its full title: Berlin, Hauptstadt der DDR (“Berlin, capital of the GDR”). Berlin (West), on the other hand, was chiefly used in West Germany, corresponding to Berlin (Ost) for East Berlin.

Declension

Declension of West-Berlin [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	West-Berlin
genitive	eines	des	West-Berlins
dative	einem	dem	West-Berlin
accusative	ein	das	West-Berlin

Further reading

• West-Berlin on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de