Talk:Berliner
German adjectives[edit]
Words such as Berliner (as in "die Berliner Mauer"), Hamburger, Wiener (as in "Wiener Würstchen") are adjectives, but are usually written with a capital letter. As adjectives are (usually) written with small letters in German, it would be logical to write berliner, hamburger, wiener. And indeed such forms were used. A few examples:
- [www.zeno.org/DamenConvLex-1834/A/Westphalen,+Engel+Christina] & [www.zeno.org/DamenConvLex-1834/A/Tasse] (no OCR errors): "Gemahlin eines hamburger Kaufmanns" & "die französischen und berliner Fabrikate" (in the lexicon also "Berliner" appears, so it might depend on the volume or author)
- [books.google.de/books?id=h-0xAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA435]: "und wie die berliner Pfannkuchen"
- [books.google.de/books?id=IpM_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA25]: "und berliner Pfannkuchen"
- [books.google.de/books?id=UIBeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA84]: "wo man die diplomatischen wiener Schnitzel zubereiten will"
-84.161.15.101 13:28, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
what about as a jelly doughnut[edit]
I have heard many places, and in a few translation things and bilingual dictionaries, that "Berliner" is used for doughnut, yet, I have not been able to find any internet forums or anything with it, so I don't have a citation for usage. It's probably got some usage in fiction, but I can't get that much by means of google. 2607:F5F0:110:1:0:0:0:3 21:01, 14 October 2020 (UTC)