Definition
Countries outside one’s own country, or a stay in those countries.
Translations
- English
- abroad
- Français
- étranger
- Türkçe
- yurt dışı
- Polski
- zagranica
- Русский
- заграница
- Українська
- закордон
GERMAN DICTIONARY
das Ausland
- A2
- Noun
- Countries & Cultures
- Travel & Transport
abroad
/das ˈaʊ̯slant/
Meaning and translations
Meaning, definition and translations of this sense.
Grammar & classification
Main grammatical and classification properties of the word.
- Article
- das
- Gender
- Neuter
- Plural
- —
- Part of speech
- Noun
- CEFR level
- A2
- Morphology
- Compound
- Topics
- Countries & CulturesPrimaryTravel & Transport
Usage examples
Examples showing real usage and grammatical forms.
- Das Ausland bietet viele berufliche Chancen.NominativSing.Foreign countries offer many career opportunities.
- Viele Menschen wollen das Ausland kennenlernen.AkkusativSing.Many people want to get to know foreign countries.
- Sie lebt seit Jahren im Ausland.DativSing.She has been living abroad for years.
- Die Vielfalt des Auslands fasziniert sie.GenitivSing.The diversity of foreign countries fascinates her.
Pronunciation and forms
Pronunciation and audio for the lemma and important forms.
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Lemma
Ausland/ˈaʊ̯slant/
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Article phrase
das Ausland/das ˈaʊ̯slant/
Declension / Forms
How the noun changes across German cases and singular or plural.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | das Ausland | — |
| Akkusativ | das Ausland | — |
| Dativ | dem Ausland | — |
| Genitiv | des Auslands | — |
Usage and collocations
Typical constructions, prepositions and word combinations.
- Collocationins Ausland reisen
- Collocationim Ausland leben
- Collocationim Ausland arbeiten
- Collocationaus dem Ausland kommen
- Collocationdas Ausland kennenlernen
Semantic relations
How this meaning relates to other meanings and easily confused words.
- Near-synonymFremde
Ausland refers to countries outside one’s own country; Fremde tends to mean what is unfamiliar or not native and is therefore not interchangeable in all contexts.
Word formation and word family
How the word is formed and its reviewed lexical family.
Formation typeCompound
- ausPrefix
- LandOther
„Ausland“ is a compound formed from the component „aus“ and the noun „Land“.
Word family
- Ausländerin — female foreign national