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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Unterkunft

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Unterkunft

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Lodging/ˈlɒdʒ.ɪŋ/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2450 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Wir suchen eine günstige Unterkunft."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A place in which someone lives or stays temporarily.

    "They had to find temporary lodging while their house was being repaired."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'loggynge', from Old French 'loge', of Germanic origin (compare with Old High German 'laubja' meaning arbor, foliage). Historically evolved from a place consisting of temporary outdoor shelters of leaves or branches into permanent commercial or residential accommodation.

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