Skip to content

Mietwagen

rental car

noun MEET-vah-gen Rare
Travel & Places Transportation

Origin: from mieten (to rent) and Wagen

Also means

hire car

Usage Note

Mietwagen is masculine and unchanged in the plural. You collect a Mietwagen at the airport counter; the verb mieten means to rent, contrasting with vermieten (to rent out).

Examples

"Am Flughafen holten wir den gebuchten Mietwagen ab."

Natural Translation

At the airport we picked up the rental car we had booked.

Literal Translation

At-the airport fetched we the booked rental-car off.

Explore German by topic