Polyglot Dictionary

Jugendliche

/ˈjuːɡn̩tlɪçə/

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 Jugendlichen

Meaning

  1. teenager (f.)

    Built from Jugend (youth) + -lich (-ful).

    • Die Jugendliche spielt Gitarre.

      The teenager plays the guitar.

N Category Person Concreteness Concrete Animacy Animate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • Jugend youth
  • -lich -ful

Similar words

teenager

Jugendliche is more formal or legal, used as a legal category, roughly 14-17 years old; Teenager is the casual loanword.

Similar in other languages

English

adolescent

Close — a teenager relates to an adolescent.

Practice

1 What does Jugendliche mean?

2 Fill the gap: Die ___ spielt Gitarre.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Jugendliche?

nouncompound

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