Polyglot Dictionary

Handschrift

/ˈhantʃʁɪft/

die noun B1

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

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
die Handschriften

Meaning

  1. handwriting

  2. manuscript (an old, hand-written document)

    formal, historical

    • Das Museum zeigt eine mittelalterliche Handschrift.

      The museum is showing a medieval manuscript.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • Hand hand
  • Schrift writing, script — from schreiben, to write

Similar words

Unterschrift

Same Schrift ending, narrower meaning: an Unterschrift (unter "under" + Schrift) is specifically a signature, written under a document — not handwriting in general.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

caligrafía

caligrafía is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "handwriting."

Portuguese

caligrafia

caligrafia is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "handwriting."

Practice

1 What does Handschrift mean?

2 Fill the gap: Deine ___ ist schwer zu lesen.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Handschrift?

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