Grube

See also: grube and grübe

English

Proper noun

Grube

1. A surname.
2. A municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Anagrams

• Burge, gebur, guber

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡʁuːbə/
• Hyphenation: Gru‧be

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Etymology 1

From Middle High German grūbe, gruobe, from Old High German gruoba, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scrape, bury”). Cognate with English groove. Doublet of Groove.

Noun

Grube f (genitive Grube, plural Gruben, diminutive Grübchen n or Grüblein n)

1. pit
2. (mining) mine

Declension

Declension of Grube [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Grube	die	Gruben
genitive	einer	der	Grube	der	Gruben
dative	einer	der	Grube	den	Gruben
accusative	eine	die	Grube	die	Gruben

Related terms

• Grubenschacht, Grubenunglück
• Fallgrube, Müllgrube, Sandgrube, Wolfsgrube
• wer andern eine Grube gräbt, fällt selbst hinein

Descendants

• → Danish: grube
• → Ukrainian: груба (hruba)
  • → Romanian: hrubă
• → Saterland Frisian: Gruube
• → Silesian: gruba
• → Swedish: gruva

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Grube n (proper noun, genitive Grubes or (optionally with an article) Grube)

1. A municipality of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Further reading

• “Grube” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Grube” in Duden online
• “Grube” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache