# der Bruch

der Bruch is a German noun meaning “break”. Forms: des Bruches, die Brüche.

## Forms

- Genitive: des Bruches
- Plural: die Brüche

## In other languages

- Русский: поломка, процесс ломания

## Noun

1. break, breaking, breach, fracture, rupture
2. fraction
3. hernia
   - sich einen Bruch heben — to get a hernia from heavy lifting
4. _figurative_ (to) excess, very much
   - sich einen Bruch lachen — to split one's sides

## Noun

1. _in placenames_ swamp; wet, swampy land with trees and bushes, which if drained becomes suitable for grazing animals on

## Noun

1. _archaic_ pair of hose, leggings, pants, trousers

## Examples

- Rational nennt man Zahlen, die sich als Bruch zweier ganzer Zahlen schreiben lassen. — Numbers that can be expressed as fractions of two whole numbers are called rational numbers.
- Tom kann mit Brüchen nichts anfangen. — Tom doesn't understand fractions.
- Ein Fenster ging zu Bruch. — A window was broken.
- Mir ist die Kanne der Kaffeemaschine zu Bruch gegangen. — I broke the carafe that goes to the coffee maker.
- Der Bruch war nicht so schwerwiegend, wie wir gedacht hatten. — The fracture wasn't as serious as we thought.

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