# die Brüderschaft

die Brüderschaft is a German noun meaning “brotherhood”. Forms: der Brüderschaft, die Brüderschaften.

## Forms

- Genitive: der Brüderschaft
- Plural: die Brüderschaften

## In other languages

- Русский: братство

## Meanings

1. brotherhood (the state of being brothers or considering each other as brethren)
2. A drink, usually alcoholic, shared (usually between men) to seal a friendship and mark the change from the use of the plural Sie second-person pronoun to the familiar du pronoun

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