Polyglot Dictionary

Büro

/byˈʁoː/

das noun A1

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

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
die Büros

Meaning

  1. office

    • Sie arbeitet in einem großen Büro.

      She works in a large office.

N Category Place Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Agentur

Agentur specifically means an agency, a business that provides a service on behalf of clients; Büro is the general word for an office, any place of business.

Similar in other languages

Portuguese

escritório

escritório is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "office."

Portuguese

secretaria

secretaria is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "office."

Practice

1 What does Büro mean?

2 Fill the gap: Sie arbeitet in einem großen ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Büro?

See also

nouncore-vocabulary

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