Polyglot Dictionary

Beteiligung

/bəˈtaɪ̯lɪɡʊŋ/

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
die Beteiligungen

Meaning

  1. participation

    Built from beteiligen (to involve) + -ung (-ing).

    • Die Beteiligung war hoch.

      Participation was high.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • beteiligen to involve
  • -ung -ing

Similar words

Partizipation

Beteiligung is the standard everyday word for participation (also a financial stake or shareholding); Partizipation is a more academic or political-science loanword, like citizen participation in politics.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

participación

participación is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "participation."

Portuguese

participação

participação is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "participation."

Practice

1 What does Beteiligung mean?

2 Fill the gap: Die ___ war hoch.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Beteiligung?

nouncompound

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