# das Vaterunser

das Vaterunser is a German noun meaning “Lord's Prayer”. Forms: des Vaterunsers, die Vaterunser.

## Forms

- Genitive: des Vaterunsers
- Plural: die Vaterunser

## In other languages

- Русский: религ. Отче наш

## Meanings

1. Lord's Prayer; Our Father; paternoster (prayer that Jesus taught his disciples)
2. _archaic_ an approximate measure of time: as long as it takes to say the Our Father at an intermediate tempo, i.e. about half a minute

## Examples

- Tom sagte das Vaterunser auf. — Tom recited the Lord's Prayer.
- Man hält Joachim für religiös, dabei kann er kaum das Vaterunser. — Joaquim is said to be religious, but he hardly knows the Lord's prayer.
- Ich war nie religiös, aber das Vaterunser auf Latein zu hören macht mich schaudern. — I've never been religious, but hearing the Lord's Prayer in Latin makes me shudder.

## Related words

- Synonym: Paternoster

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Sources: Meanings and forms from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).
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