Polyglot Dictionary

Jahreszeit

/ˈjaːʁəsˌtsaɪt/

die noun A2

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

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
die Jahreszeiten

Meaning

  1. season (of the year)

    Built from Jahr (year) + Zeit (time — as a quantity or a duration).

    • Meine liebste Jahreszeit ist der Herbst.

      My favourite season is autumn.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • Jahr year
  • Zeit time — as a quantity or a duration

Similar words

saison

Saison is more about a season in a business or cultural sense, like a tourist season or sports season; Jahreszeit is purely about the four seasons of the year.

Practice

1 What does Jahreszeit mean?

2 Fill the gap: Meine liebste ___ ist der Herbst.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Jahreszeit?

nouncompound

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