Flugzeugs

Flugzeugs is a German word that is rarely treated as a standalone term in standard usage. In everyday practice the base noun is Flugzeug, meaning aircraft or airplane, with Flugzeuge as the plural. The possessive or genitive relation is normally expressed with des Flugzeugs in formal writing, as in die Reparatur des Flugzeugs (the aircraft’s repair). The bare string Flugzeugs alone is not a common syntactic unit in contemporary German.

Etymology and meaning: Flugzeug combines Flug (flight) with Zeug (thing, device) and designates a device capable of flight. The suffix -zeug is a productive element in German for a class of technical devices, yielding words such as Fahrzeug (vehicle) or Küchenzeug (kitchenware), though Flugzeug is the standard term for an aircraft.

Grammar and usage: When referring to a single aircraft, use des Flugzeugs for the genitive form and Flugzeug in the nominative or accusative (das Flugzeug, das Flugzeug). For multiple aircraft, use Flugzeuge as the plural (die Flugzeuge). In most sentences, the possessive relationship is expressed with the full genitive phrase, not with a bare Flugzeugs. For example: Die Tragflächen des Flugzeugs sind beschädigt; Die Reparaturen der Flugzeuge waren erfolgreich.

Relations and context: Flugzeugs is not a separate lexical entry in modern German dictionaries. It may appear only as part of misspellings or stylistic shortcuts influenced by English possessives (as in Flugzeug’s), which are generally avoided in standard writing. The conventional terminology remains Flugzeug and Flugzeuge, with des Flugzeugs as the correct genitive form.

See also: Flugzeug, Flugzeugbau, Luftfahrzeug.