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Verbindung

connection

noun fer-BIN-dung Common
Communication Technology

Also means

compound

Usage Note

Verbindung spans a phone or transport 'connection' and a chemical 'compound'. You stay in Verbindung ('in contact') with someone and sich in Verbindung setzen means to get in touch. All German nouns ending in -ung are feminine.

Examples

"Die Verbindung ist sehr schlecht."

Natural Translation

The connection is very bad.

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