Polyglot Dictionary

Wort

/vɔʁt/

das noun A1

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural (individual words)
die Wörter
plural (words in context, e.g. a speech)
die Worte

Meaning

  1. word

    German keeps two plurals apart: Wörter for separate vocabulary items (as in a dictionary), Worte for words spoken together, as in a speech or a quote.

    • Das ist ein schwieriges Wort.

      That's a difficult word.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Begriff

A Wort is the linguistic unit itself — its spelling and sound. A Begriff is the concept behind it, which can be expressed by different Wörter in different languages. A dictionary translates Wörter; it explains Begriffe.

Similar in other languages

French

mot

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

Portuguese

palavra

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

Practice

1 What does Wort mean?

2 Fill the gap: Das ist ein schwieriges ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Wort?

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