Polyglot Dictionary

Verwaltung

/fɛɐ̯ˈvaltʊŋ/

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 Verwaltungen

Meaning

  1. administration

    • Die Verwaltung der Stadt ist im Rathaus.

      The city administration is in the town hall.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Administration

Verwaltung is the everyday German word for administration — an office, a bureaucracy; Administration is a more formal, Latinate synonym, often used for a government administration or IT systems administration.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

administración

administración is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "administration."

Portuguese

administração

administração is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "administration."

Practice

1 What does Verwaltung mean?

2 Fill the gap: Die ___ der Stadt ist im Rathaus.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Verwaltung?

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