Blackbox
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German[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English black box.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Blackbox f (genitive Blackbox, plural Blackboxen or Blackboxes)
- (aviation) black box; flight recorder
- Synonym: Flugschreiber
Usage notes[edit]
- The Duden prescribes that unadapted borrowings from English consisting of an adjective (that carries the stress) and a noun be written solid (Blackbox) or, alternatively, spaced (Black Box). The hyphenated spelling (Black-Box) is proscribed.[1]
- Blackbox refers especially to the protective box, while Flugschreiber refers especially to the recorders inside of it. Hence, die Blackbox bergen (“to recover the black box”), but den Flugschreiber auswerten (“to analyse the flight recorder”). Nevertheless, both terms are also used interchangeably.
- While the simplex Box has only the Germanised plural Boxen, the compound Blackbox also uses the English plural in -es.
Declension[edit]
Declension of Blackbox [feminine]
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | Blackbox | die | Blackboxen, Blackboxes |
| genitive | einer | der | Blackbox | der | Blackboxen, Blackboxes |
| dative | einer | der | Blackbox | den | Blackboxen, Blackboxes |
| accusative | eine | die | Blackbox | die | Blackboxen, Blackboxes |
References[edit]
- ^ “Schreibung von Fremdwörtern aus dem Englischen [Spelling of loan words from English]”, in Duden[1] (in German), Cornelsen Verlag GmbH, (Can we date this quote?), archived from the original on 2023-01-20