Polyglot Dictionary

Bundesland

/ˈbʊndəsˌlant/

das 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 Bundesländer

Meaning

  1. federal state

    Built from Bund (federation) + Land (state).

    • Bayern ist ein Bundesland.

      Bavaria is a federal state.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • Bund federation
  • Land state

Similar words

Bundesstaat

Bundesland is specifically the term for a German or Austrian federal state; Bundesstaat is more general, often used for OTHER countries' federal states, like a US state.

Practice

1 What does Bundesland mean?

2 Fill the gap: Bayern ist ein ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Bundesland?

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