Polyglot Dictionary

Hospital

/hɔspiˈtaːl/

das 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 Medical Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
die Hospitäler

Meaning

  1. hospital (dated)

    • Er lag im Hospital.

      He lay in hospital.

N Category Place Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

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English

infirmary

Close — a (dated) hospital relates to an infirmary.

Practice

1 What does Hospital mean?

2 Fill the gap: Er lag im ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Hospital?

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