Aktie

See also: aktie

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch actie (“stock”), from Middle Dutch actie (“legal claim”), from Latin āctiō. Doublet of Aktion and Action.

An earlier borrowing in the sense “legal claim” remained restricted to north-western Germany. In Dutch itself, both of the mentioned senses are obsolete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈak.tsi̯ə/, [ˈʔak.t͡sjə], [ˈʔak.t͡si.ə]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Aktie f (genitive Aktie, plural Aktien)

1. (finance) share, stock

   Synonyms: (overall rare) Anteilschein, (only in context) Anteil

   Aktiengesellschaft ― joint stock company

2. (law, dialect) legal claim

Declension

Declension of Aktie [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Aktie	die	Aktien
genitive	einer	der	Aktie	der	Aktien
dative	einer	der	Aktie	den	Aktien
accusative	eine	die	Aktie	die	Aktien

Further reading

• “Aktie” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Aktie” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Aktie” in Duden online
• Aktie on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de