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The German word for shell is
Schale





shell

Gender

The gender of Schale is feminine. E.g. die Schale.

Plural

The plural of Schale is Schalen.

German Definition


shell
     Schale, Eierschale
     Muschel
     Granate, Geschoss

Translations for shell and their definitions

Granate
     n-f. a grenade (weapon)


Muschel ©
     n-f. bivalve; seashell (marine mollusk with a shell, or the shell itself)
     n-f. (cooking, often, specifically) mussel
     n-f. (colloquial rare) snailshell
     n-f. dated ellipsis of Hörmuschel
     n-f. obsolete synonym of Muschi (female genitalia)


Schale ©
     n-f. peel; husk; shell (outer layer)
     n-f. shell; scallop
     n-f. (hunting) hoof
     n-f. dish (shallow container)
     n-f. bowl; cup (roughly hemispherical container)
     n. plural of Schal
     adj. form of schal


Eierschale
     n-f. eggshell


Geschoss
     n-n. projectile
     n-n. storey, floor


Hülle
     n-f. covering, wrapping
     n-f. case, sheath
     n-f. husk (useless, dried-up, worthless exterior)
     n-f. mantle (anything that covers or conceals something else)
     n-f. shell (any hollow structure; framework, or exterior structure)
     n-f. cladding (hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection)
     n-f. (aeronautics) envelope (bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship)
     n-f. (chemistry) shell (set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number)
     n-f. (mathematics) closure (smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property)
     v. first-person singular present of hüllen
     v. first-person singular subjunctive of hüllen
     v. third-person singular subjunctive of hüllen
     v. singular imperative of hüllen



Patrone
     n-f. (firearms) cartridge, round (live ammunition for a gun)
          Er hatte noch drei Patronen im Magazin. - He had three rounds left in the magazine.
     n-f. (firearms, loosely) cartridge case, casing (parts of a round of ammunition exclusive of the projectile)
          Die Kugel haben wir nicht gefunden, aber die Patrone liegt hier. - We haven’t found the bullet, but the casing lies right here.
     n-f. ink cartridge (for a printer)


Schalentier
     n. (biology) crustacean
     n. (culinary) shellfish


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