Polyglot Dictionary

Beamter

/bəˈʔamtɐ/

der noun B1

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
die Beamten

Meaning

  1. civil servant

    Built from Amt (office) + be- ((having)).

    • Mein Vater ist Beamter.

      My father is a civil servant.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • Amt office
  • be- (having)

Similar words

Similar in other languages

Spanish

funcionario

funcionario is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "civil servant."

French

fonctionnaire

fonctionnaire is the French word for the same thing — both mean "civil servant."

Practice

1 What does Beamter mean?

2 Fill the gap: Mein Vater ist ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Beamter?

nouncompound

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