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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Rückerstattung

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Rückerstattung

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Refund/ˈriː.fʌnd/
nounverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #2800 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Ich hätte gerne eine Rückerstattung."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A sum of money paid back, especially to a customer who is not satisfied with goods or services bought.

    "She asked for a full refund after the television broke down."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'refundere', meaning 'to pour back, restore, or repay', combining 're-' (back) and 'fundere' (to pour). Entering Middle English via Old French in the late 14th century, the term initially meant to pour back or restore liquid, eventually shifting by the 16th century to denote the financial reimbursement of money paid.

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