Polyglot Dictionary

Freiheitsstrafe

/ˈfʁaɪhaɪtsˌʃtʁaːfə/

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 Freiheitsstrafen

Meaning

  1. prison sentence

    Built from Freiheit (freedom) + Strafe (punishment).

    • Er bekam eine Freiheitsstrafe von zwei Jahren.

      He received a two-year prison sentence.

N Category Place Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • Freiheit freedom
  • Strafe punishment

Similar words

haftstrafe

Freiheitsstrafe is the formal legal term for a prison sentence, deprivation of liberty; Haftstrafe is the more common, general term for imprisonment.

Similar in other languages

French

peine de prison

peine de prison is the French word for the same thing — both mean "prison sentence."

Practice

1 What does Freiheitsstrafe mean?

2 Fill the gap: Er bekam eine ___ von zwei Jahren.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Freiheitsstrafe?

nouncompound

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