Polyglot Dictionary

Abstammung

/ˈapʃtamʊŋ/

die noun B2

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
Abstammungen

Meaning

  1. descent, ancestry

    • Er ist deutscher Abstammung, lebt aber in Kanada.

      He is of German descent but lives in Canada.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

entstehung

Abstammung is descent or ancestry — family lineage; Entstehung is origin or emergence — how something came into being in general, not necessarily genealogical.

ursprung

Close synonyms for "origin" — Abstammung is specifically about genealogical descent; Ursprung is the general word for where anything comes from.

Similar in other languages

English

origin

Close — descent/ancestry and origin overlap.

English

ancestry

ancestry is the English word for the same thing — both mean "ancestry, descent."

Practice

1 What does Abstammung mean?

2 Fill the gap: Er ist deutscher ___, lebt aber in Kanada.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Abstammung?

noun

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