Polyglot Dictionary

Kolonie

/koloˈniː/

die noun B2

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 Kolonien

Meaning

  1. colony

    • Das Land war früher eine Kolonie.

      The country used to be a colony.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Collective

Similar words

Siedlung

Close — both describe a settled community.

Similar in other languages

French

colonie

colonie is the French word for the same thing — both mean "colony."

Portuguese

colônia

colônia is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "colony."

Practice

1 What does Kolonie mean?

2 Fill the gap: Das Land war früher eine ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Kolonie?

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