Nacht

From Middle High German naht, from Old High German naht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Akin to Dutch nacht, English night, Danish nat, Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (nahts).

• IPA^(key): /naxt/, [naχt], [naxt]

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Nacht f (genitive Nacht, plural Nächte, diminutive Nächtchen n)

1. night

   Die Nacht war lang und frostig.

   The night was long and chilly.

2. darkness

   Sie wurden von der Nacht verschlungen.

   They were engulfed by the darkness (of the night).

• In contemporary German, Nacht is used somewhat differently than English night. Although Nacht can be a general term for the dark hours of the day, when used as a time measurement it refers only to those hours when most ordinary people are in bed (roughly 11 p.m. till 6 a.m.). So while one says in English: “Let's have a beer tonight!”, in German one needs to say: Lass uns heute Abend ein Bier trinken! (“Let's have a beer this evening!”)
• In English, one says in the night or in the day referring to a time of day, but on that night or on that day referring to a date. German, instead, always uses in with Nacht and always uses an with Tag (except when the latter simply means “time, era”, e.g. in jenen Tagen (“in those days”)).
• A (masculine) genitive Nachts occurs only in the phrases des Nachts (“at night”) and eines Nachts (“one night”) and alone as the adverbial genitive Nachts (cp. nachts).

• heinacht, Fastnacht, Mitternacht, Sternennacht
• Nachtblindheit f, Nachtschatten

(times of day) Tageszeit; Morgendämmerung, Morgen, Vormittag, Mittag, Nachmittag (Frühnachmittag, Spätnachmittag), Abenddämmerung, Abend, Nacht, Mitternacht ^{(Category: de:Times of day)}

• “Nacht” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Nacht” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Nacht” in Duden online
• Nacht on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Nacht” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

• naacht (Wiesemann spelling system)

From Middle High German naht, from Old High German naht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”).

• IPA^(key): /naxt/

Nacht f (plural Necht)

1. night

   Die Nacht is kalt.

   The night is cold.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From Middle Low German nacht, from Old Saxon naht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaxt/

Nacht f (plural Nachten)

1. night

• Der neue SASS: Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch, Plattdeutsch - Hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch - Plattdeutsch. Plattdeutsche Rechtschreibung, sixth revised edition (2011, →ISBN, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster)

• naacht (Föhr-Amrum)
• nåcht (Mooring)

From Old Frisian nacht

Nacht m or f (plural Nachter)

1. (Sylt) night

From Middle High German nacht, from Old High German naht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Compare German Nacht, Dutch nacht, English night.

Nacht f (plural Nachde)

1. night