Nachbar

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Equivalent to, +. The first component underwent pre-cluster shortening, the second was monophthongized from Early Modern German (and then possibly associated with the unrelated suffix ).

Noun

 * 1) neighbour

Usage notes

 * The word can be declined according to the weak or mixed group. Both ways are standard, but weak declension is more common in formal usage, mixed declension in colloquial usage.