Polyglot Dictionary

Verbesserung

/fɛɐ̯ˈbɛsəʁʊŋ/

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 Verbesserungen

Meaning

  1. improvement

    Built from verbessern (to improve) + -ung (-ment).

    • Das ist eine deutliche Verbesserung.

      That is a clear improvement.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • verbessern to improve
  • -ung -ment

Similar words

besserung

Besserung is often used for health recovery, like "gute Besserung," get well soon; Verbesserung is more general improvement, of a process or product.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

mejora

mejora is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "improvement."

Portuguese

melhoria

melhoria is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "improvement."

Practice

1 What does Verbesserung mean?

2 Fill the gap: Das ist eine deutliche ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Verbesserung?

nouncompound

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