Polyglot Dictionary

Bewahrung

/bəˈvaːʁʊŋ/

die noun C1

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

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. preservation

    • Die Bewahrung der Natur ist wichtig.

      The preservation of nature is important.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Erhaltung

Erhaltung is the more common word for preservation or conservation, like historic preservation; Bewahrung is slightly more literary, often about safeguarding something valuable or abstract, like peace.

Similar in other languages

Portuguese

preservação

preservação is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "preservation."

Practice

1 What does Bewahrung mean?

2 Fill the gap: Die ___ der Natur ist wichtig.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Bewahrung?

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