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Not a German speaker, but is baden the plural form then? I feel sometimes spa towns have baden in the name and others are just "bad."
by bogomipz 7y ago
Not a German speaker, but is baden the plural form then? I feel sometimes spa towns have baden in the name and others are just "bad."
- Tomte 7y agoThe plural would be "Bäder", but I'm not aware of any town using that plural form. It would be very strange, too, because a town is a single entity. Baden-Baden is the only one I know that comes close, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Baden#Name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Baden#Name explains how it got that name. It's not the spa prefix, but part of the name proper. Also, "Baden" is a region in the south-western state of Baden-Württemberg that probably has lent its name to other towns. It is home to one of the two big dialect families in Baden-Würrtemberg: Badisch, the other being Schwäbisch/Swabian.
- bogomipz 7y agoWell there's also Wiesbaden in Germany, which is pretty well known. There are some others as well closer to the Czech republic.
- bogomipz 7y agoFrom your link: "In modern German, Baden is a noun meaning "bathing"[4] but Baden, the original name of the town, derives from an earlier plural form of Bad ("bath")"