Polyglot Dictionary

Wortschatz

/ˈvɔʁtʃats/

der noun B1

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 (rare)
die Wortschätze

Meaning

  1. vocabulary

    Literally "word-treasure" — the whole hoard of words a person, or a language, has at its disposal.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • Wort word
  • Schatz treasure

Similar words

Vokabular

Near-total synonyms; Vokabular is the more technical, Latin-rooted term (favoured in linguistics), while Wortschatz is the everyday word — and the far more evocative one.

Similar in other languages

French

vocabulaire

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

Portuguese

vocabulário

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

Practice

1 What does Wortschatz mean?

2 Fill the gap: Lesen erweitert den ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Wortschatz?

See also

nouncompoundlanguagemeta

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