Polyglot Dictionary

geheimnisvoll

/ɡəˈhaɪ̯mnɪsfɔl/

adjective B2

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

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

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Meaning

  1. mysterious

    Built from Geheimnis (secret) + -voll (-ful).

    • Es war eine geheimnisvolle Nacht.

      It was a mysterious night.

Made of

  • Geheimnis secret
  • -voll -ful

Similar words

rätselhaft

geheimnisvoll means mysterious in an alluring, secretive sense; rätselhaft means mysterious in a puzzling, hard-to-explain sense, like a riddle.

Similar in other languages

French

mystérieux

mystérieux is the French word for the same thing — both mean "mysterious."

Portuguese

misterioso

misterioso is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "mysterious."

Practice

1 What does geheimnisvoll mean?

2 Which fingerprint chart matches geheimnisvoll?

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