Polyglot Dictionary

Depression

/depʁɛˈsi̯oːn/

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

Forms

plural
die Depressionen

Meaning

  1. depression

    • Sie leidet an einer Depression.

      She suffers from depression.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Wirtschaftskrise

Wirtschaftskrise is the general word for an economic crisis; Depression is the technical economic term for a severe, prolonged downturn (not to be confused with its other meaning, clinical depression).

Similar in other languages

Spanish

depresión

depresión is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "depression."

Portuguese

depressão

depressão is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "depression."

Practice

1 What does Depression mean?

2 Fill the gap: Sie leidet an einer ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Depression?

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