Restaurant

See also: restaurant

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French restaurant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛstoˈrã/, [ˌʁɛs.toˈʁãː], [-ˈʁaŋ], [-ˈʁɔ̃ː], [-ˈʁɔŋ]

• audio [-ˈʁɔ̃ː], [-ˈʁaŋ]

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• Hyphenation: Re‧s‧tau‧rant
• Rhymes: -ãː, -aŋ, -ɔŋ

Noun

Restaurant n (strong, genitive Restaurants, plural Restaurants)

1. restaurant

   Synonyms: (mostly umbrella term) Gaststätte, (mostly pub-like, traditional) Lokal, Wirtschaft, Wirtshaus

   ausgezeichnetes Restaurant. ― excellent restaurant.

   empfehlenswertes Restaurant. ― recommended restaurant.

   erstklassiges Restaurant. ― first class restaurant.

   feines Restaurant. ― fine-dining restaurant.

Declension

Declension of Restaurant [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Restaurant	die	Restaurants
genitive	eines	des	Restaurants	der	Restaurants
dative	einem	dem	Restaurant	den	Restaurants
accusative	ein	das	Restaurant	die	Restaurants

Further reading

• “Restaurant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Restaurant” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Restaurant” in Duden online
• Restaurant on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de