🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Karte

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kar-te

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Card/kɑrd/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #800 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Sie hat ihre Adresse auf eine Karte geschrieben."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A rectangular piece of stiff paper or plastic used for playing games or for identification.

    "He shuffled the deck of cards before dealing them out."
  2. 2

    A piece of thick, stiff paper or thin pasteboard, typically used for writing or printing on.

    "She wrote her address on a card and mailed it to her friend."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'card' originates from the Latin 'charta', meaning 'a piece of paper'. It evolved through Old French 'carte' in the Middle Ages, referring to a map or a document, before settling into its modern English usage to denote a small, flat piece of material used for various purposes.

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