empfehlenswert

recommendable

adjective emp-FAY-lens-vairt Less Common

Also means

worth recommending

Usage Note

empfehlenswert describes something worth recommending, built from empfehlen ('to recommend') plus -wert ('-worthy'). German loves these -wert compounds, like sehenswert (worth seeing) and lesenswert (worth reading). It often appears in reviews: sehr empfehlenswert.

Examples

"Das Restaurant ist sehr empfehlenswert."

Natural Translation

The restaurant is highly recommendable.

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