Usage Note
Leihbücherei is a lending library, historically a commercial enterprise where readers paid to borrow books. Today it can refer informally to a public library (Stadtbücherei). The word evokes the pre-digital era of book circulation.
Examples
"Früher lieh sich meine Großmutter ihre Romane in der Leihbücherei aus."
Natural Translation
In the past, my grandmother used to borrow her novels from the lending library.
Literal Translation
Earlier borrowed herself my grandmother her novels in the lending-library out.
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