Feminine
Meaning

  1. (feminine) city (a large settlement)
  2. (feminine) town (a settlement larger than a village)
  3. (feminine, metonymically) city center (a central business area of a city)
  4. (feminine, metonymically) city, town, town council, city council (a governing body of people elected to oversee management of a municipality)

Frequency

A1
Dialects

Zürich

Zürich

stadt

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃtat/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German stat, from Old High German stat, from Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis. Doublet of Statt and Stätte.

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