Tagbau

German

Alternative forms

• Tagebau (northern)

Etymology

From Tag (“day”) +‎ Bau (“building, winning, mining”). The first component refers to the (sun-lit) surface of the earth, as in the mining terms unter Tag (“below ground”) and über Tag (“above ground”). The second component is used in the sense of Abbau; compare Raubbau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːɡˌbaʊ̯/

• Audio

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Noun

Tagbau m (strong, genitive Tagbaus or Tagbaues, plural Tagbaue)

1. (Austria, Bavaria, Southern Germany, Switzerland) open-pit mining, opencast mining
2. (Austria, Bavaria, Southern Germany, Switzerland) open-pit mine

Declension

Declension of Tagbau [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Tagbau	die	Tagbaue
genitive	eines	des	Tagbaus, Tagbaues	der	Tagbaue
dative	einem	dem	Tagbau, Tagbaue1	den	Tagbauen
accusative	einen	den	Tagbau	die	Tagbaue

¹Now rare, see notes.

Antonyms

• Untertagbau

Further reading

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