Bundeskriminalamt

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bundeskriminalamt.

Proper noun

Bundeskriminalamt

  1. The German federal office of criminal investigations.
    • 1988 April 2, Lori Kenschaft, “German feminists rounded up”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
      Thirty-three simultaneous raids by the Bundeskriminalamt - the German equivalent of the FBI - targeted feminist activists who have researched and spoken out against reproductive and genetic engineering.
    • 2021 May 3, James Frater and Claudia Otto, “German police bust child sex abuse imagery network with 400,000 users”, in CNN‎[1]:
      The global team, spearheaded by the German Federal Criminal Police – the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) – included the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and law enforcement agencies from the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, Canada and the United States.

German

Alternative forms

  • BKA (initialism)

Etymology

From Bund +‎ -es- +‎ Kriminalamt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʊndəskʁimiˌnaːlʔamt/
  • Hyphenation: Bun‧des‧kri‧mi‧nal‧amt
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Noun

Bundeskriminalamt n (strong, genitive Bundeskriminalamtes or Bundeskriminalamts, plural Bundeskriminalämter)

  1. federal office of criminal investigations.

Declension

Declension of Bundeskriminalamt [neuter, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein das Bundeskriminalamt die Bundeskriminalämter
genitive eines des Bundeskriminalamtes, Bundeskriminalamts der Bundeskriminalämter
dative einem dem Bundeskriminalamt, Bundeskriminalamte1 den Bundeskriminalämtern
accusative ein das Bundeskriminalamt die Bundeskriminalämter

1Now rare, see notes.

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