# die Berichtsformel

die Berichtsformel is a German noun meaning “reportative formulation”. Forms: der Berichtsformel, die Berichtsformeln.

## Forms

- Genitive: der Berichtsformel
- Plural: die Berichtsformeln

## Meanings

1. reportative formulation (a set phrase which is used to report something (i.e. tell of something which the speaker did not experience firsthand), e.g. a story, a quotation, etc.)
   - Die hiſtoriſche Berichtsformel: ἐὰν εἴπῃ ὁ ποὺς, wenn der Fus ſpraͤche. — The historical reporting formula: ἐὰν εἴπῃ ὁ ποὺς, when the foot would speak.
2. _Switzerland · bureaucratese_ report formula (a set phrase used in official documents)
   - Als Probe von den Ihnen lezthin angekündigten altteutschen Denkmählern schicke ich Ihnen eine Berichtsformel aus dem XIten Iahrhunderte mit der Uebersetzung und den Anmerkungen eines ungenannten Benediktbeurischen Religiosen. — As a sample of the old German monuments which you recently announced, I am sending you a reporting formula from the XIth century with the translation and comments of an unnamed Benedictine monk.

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