Polyglot Dictionary

Erhaltung

/ɛɐ̯ˈhaltʊŋ/

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

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Bewahrung

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 Erhaltung mean?

2 Fill the gap: Die ___ alter Gebäude ist wichtig.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Erhaltung?

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