What is the plural and gender of the plural of the German word Kommisar? A senior police officer usually translated as inspector or occasionally superintendent.
Is it die Kommisare?
Wouldn’t it be Kommisaren? One’s in town, I know, so I’m sure you can ask him.
Don’t turn around. Uh-oh.
Kommisar is masculine: der Kommisar. I believe the plural is simply die Kommisar.
I’m a native speaker. The plural is Kommissare.
Thanks. I stand corrected.
If it were a female Kommissar, would that be die Kommissarin?
Assuming Kommisarin is correct for a female commissar, the plural of that would be Kommissarinnen.
Thanks everyone, it appears my guild’s name is grammatically incorrect.
According to my dictionary your assume correctly.
One can recognize a Kommisar by their honor guard of 99 Luftballons that follow them everywhere.
Half of the words in this thread are spelled wrong, though: it’s ** Kommissar** with two s.
To summarize:
male singular Der Kommissar
male plural Die Kommissare
female singular Die Kommissarin
female plural Die Kommissarinnen
Advanced Grammar: Declination
If you want to use other cases besides the nominative, the declination is:
male
*1. Nominativ (Who?) *- Der Kommissar
2. Genetive (Whose?) - Des Kommissars
3. Dative (Whom?) - Dem Kommissar
4. Accusative (Through who?) - Den Kommissar
** female**
- Die Kommissarin
- Der Kommissarin
- Der Kommissarin
- Die Kommissarin
Doesn’t “Komissar” translate as “Comissioner”? I always assumed the words were related.
This is no use. I wanted to use Kommissar in the Dative plural 
Den Kommissare/Kommissarinnen, right?
“Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?”
Yes, but…
“Zwei, drei, vier
One, two, three
It’s easy to see…”
:rolleyes:
Um, no, it isn’t!
Also possibly of interest:
I imagine a lot of foreign speakers of German tend to assume that occupational titles follow the Student type of declension–IIRC as follows:
Masc. Sing: (Nom. Acc. Gen. Dat.) -/-en/-en*/ -en
Fem. Sing. (All -)
Plural (All -en).