Polyglot Dictionary

Hinrichtung

/ˈhɪnˌʁɪçtʊŋ/

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 Hinrichtungen

Meaning

  1. execution

    • Die Hinrichtung wurde verschoben.

      The execution was postponed.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Todesstrafe

Todesstrafe is the death penalty as a legal punishment; Hinrichtung is the execution itself, the act of carrying that punishment out.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

ejecución

ejecución is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "execution."

Portuguese

execução

execução is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "execution."

Practice

1 What does Hinrichtung mean?

2 Fill the gap: Die ___ wurde verschoben.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Hinrichtung?

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