Polyglot Dictionary

Tragödie

/tʁaˈɡøːdi̯ə/

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 Tragödien

Meaning

  1. tragedy

    • Das Unglück war eine Tragödie.

      The accident was a tragedy.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Katastrophe

Katastrophe is a sudden disastrous event; Tragödie is a tragedy, which carries a sense of dramatic, often fateful sorrow (and is also the literal word for a tragic stage play).

Similar in other languages

French

tragédie

tragédie is the French word for the same thing — both mean "tragedy."

Portuguese

tragédia

tragédia is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "tragedy."

Practice

1 What does Tragödie mean?

2 Fill the gap: Das Unglück war eine ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Tragödie?

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