Definition
A spoken or written account explaining what a person, object, place, or situation is like.
Translations
- English
- description
- Français
- description
- Türkçe
- tanım
- Polski
- opis
- Русский
- описание
- Українська
- опис
GERMAN DICTIONARY
die Beschreibung
- B1
- Noun
- Communication
- Education & Learning
description
/diː bəˈʃʁaɪ̯bʊŋ/
Meaning and translations
Meaning, definition and translations of this sense.
Grammar & classification
Main grammatical and classification properties of the word.
- Article
- die
- Gender
- Feminine
- Plural
- Beschreibungen
- Part of speech
- Noun
- CEFR level
- B1
- Morphology
- Derived word
- Topics
- CommunicationPrimaryEducation & Learning
Usage examples
Examples showing real usage and grammatical forms.
- Die Beschreibung war klar und verständlich.NominativSing.The description was clear and understandable.
- Die Redakteurin überarbeitete die Beschreibung des Produkts.AkkusativSing.The editor revised the product description.
- Der Kunde vertraute der Beschreibung des Angebots.DativSing.The customer trusted the description of the offer.
- Die Genauigkeit der Beschreibung überzeugte alle Leser.GenitivSing.The accuracy of the description convinced all the readers.
- Die Beschreibungen in den Broschüren waren ausführlich.NominativPlur.The descriptions in the brochures were detailed.
- Die Mitarbeiter verglichen mehrere Beschreibungen miteinander.AkkusativPlur.The employees compared several descriptions with one another.
- Den Beschreibungen fehlten wichtige Einzelheiten.DativPlur.The descriptions lacked important details.
- Die Unterschiede der Beschreibungen waren deutlich erkennbar.GenitivPlur.The differences between the descriptions were clearly discernible.
Pronunciation and forms
Pronunciation and audio for the lemma and important forms.
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Lemma
Beschreibung/bəˈʃʁaɪ̯bʊŋ/
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Article phrase
die Beschreibung/diː bəˈʃʁaɪ̯bʊŋ/
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Plural
Beschreibungen/bəˈʃʁaɪ̯bʊŋən/
Declension / Forms
How the noun changes across German cases and singular or plural.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativ | die Beschreibung | die Beschreibungen |
| Akkusativ | die Beschreibung | die Beschreibungen |
| Dativ | der Beschreibung | den Beschreibungen |
| Genitiv | der Beschreibung | der Beschreibungen |
Usage and collocations
Typical constructions, prepositions and word combinations.
- Adjective combinationeine ausführliche Beschreibung
- Adjective combinationeine genaue Beschreibung
- Collocationeine Beschreibung verfassen
- Collocationeine Beschreibung lesen
- Sentence patternDie Beschreibung erklärt den Ablauf verständlich.
Semantic relations
How this meaning relates to other meanings and easily confused words.
Word formation and word family
How the word is formed and its reviewed lexical family.
Formation typeDerived word
- Beschreib-Other
- -ungSuffix
„Beschreibung“ is derived from „beschreiben“ with the suffix „-ung“ and denotes the result or content of describing.
Word family
- beschreiben
- beschreibbar
- Beschreiber