Expedition

See also: expedition and expédition

German

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin expedītiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔɛkspediˈtsi̯oːn/

• Audio

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Noun

Expedition f (genitive Expedition, plural Expeditionen)

1. expedition
   • 2010, Der Spiegel‎^[1], number 5/2010, page 101:

     Ein 20-köpfiges Team von Top-Bergsteigern aus Nepal will sich Ende April auf den Weg in die Gipfelregion des Mount Everest machen, um den Zivilisationsmüll zu beseitigen, den frühere Expeditionen dort hinterlassen haben.

     A team of 20 top mountain climbers from Nepal wants to head to the summit region of Mount Everest at the end of April to clean up the waste of civilization that earlier expeditions have left behind there.

Declension

Declension of Expedition [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Expedition	die	Expeditionen
genitive	einer	der	Expedition	der	Expeditionen
dative	einer	der	Expedition	den	Expeditionen
accusative	eine	die	Expedition	die	Expeditionen

Descendants

• → Russian: экспедиция (ekspedicija)
  • → Bulgarian: експеди́ция (ekspedícija)
  • → Yakut: экспедиция (ekspeditsiya)

Further reading

• “Expedition” in Duden online