Comeback
Appearance
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Come-back (equally official, but not recommended by Duden)
Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English comeback.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Comeback n (strong, genitive Comebacks, plural Comebacks)
- comeback (return to success or popularity)
- 2010, Der Spiegel[1], number 47/2010, page 150:
- Die Rückkehr von Take That ist eines der großen Popwunder der letzten Jahre – nichts ist unwahrscheinlicher als das Comeback einer Teenie-Gruppe.
- The return of Take That is one of the great pop-music miracles of the last years – nothing is more unlikely than the comeback of a teen group.
- 2025 August 24, Bastian Midasch, “Diesen Tennisprofis gelang ein spätes Comeback (oder auch nicht)”, in Der Spiegel[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 August 2025:
- Mit 45 Jahren nimmt Venus Williams noch einmal an den US Open teil. Im Profitennis haben späte und überraschende Comebacks Tradition. Hier sehen Sie, wer völlig unerwartet noch mal auf den Court zurückkehrte.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (rare) comeback; retort (witty reply)
- Synonyms: schlagfertige Antwort, Erwiderung, Retourkutsche
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | ein | das | Comeback | die | Comebacks |
| genitive | eines | des | Comebacks | der | Comebacks |
| dative | einem | dem | Comeback | den | Comebacks |
| accusative | ein | das | Comeback | die | Comebacks |
Further reading
[edit]
Comeback on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de- “Comeback” in Duden online
- “Comeback”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[3] (in German)
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