Polyglot Dictionary

Völkermord

/ˈfœlkɐˌmɔʁt/

der 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 General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
die Völkermorde

Meaning

  1. genocide

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

genozid

Völkermord is the native German compound for "genocide," literally "murder of a people," more commonly used in everyday German and legal contexts; Genozid is the international, Greek-derived loanword.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

genocidio

genocidio is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "genocide."

Practice

1 What does Völkermord mean?

2 Fill the gap: Der ___ wurde verurteilt.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Völkermord?

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