Rente
See also: rente and renté
German
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Noun
Rente f (genitive Rente, plural Renten)
- pension, retirement pay
- in Rente ― on retirement pay
Usage notes
Note that the terms Rente and Pension have a slightly different meaning in Germany and Austria.
Note also that Rente is a false friend and does not mean “rent”. The general word for “rent” is Miete.
Declension
Declension of Rente [feminine]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | eine | die | Rente | die | Renten |
genitive | einer | der | Rente | der | Renten |
dative | einer | der | Rente | den | Renten |
accusative | eine | die | Rente | die | Renten |
Related terms
- Altersrente
- Frührente
- Invalidenrente
- Mütterrente
- Sozialrente
- Unfallrente
See also
- Pension
Further reading
- “Rente” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Rente” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Rente” in Duden online
Rente on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Rente”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891