Tenne

German

Etymology

From Middle High German tenne, from Old High German tenni, from Proto-West Germanic *dani (“flat area; pasture”). Cognate with English den.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛnə/

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Noun

Tenne f (genitive Tenne, plural Tennen)

1. threshing-floor
2. (by extension) a barn attached to a farmhouse, which is used (or was originally used) for threshing and/or keeping fodder

Usage notes

• In the extended sense of “barn”, the word is often still used with the preposition auf (“on”) rather than in. (Compare the same in Dachboden.)

Declension

Declension of Tenne [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Tenne	die	Tennen
genitive	einer	der	Tenne	der	Tennen
dative	einer	der	Tenne	den	Tennen
accusative	eine	die	Tenne	die	Tennen

Derived terms

• Futtertenne

Further reading

• “Tenne” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Tenne” in Duden online