# das Dorf

das Dorf is a German noun meaning “village”. Forms: des Dorfes, die Dörfer.

## Forms

- Genitive: des Dorfes
- Plural: die Dörfer

## In other languages

- Русский: село, деревня
- Українська: село

## Meanings

1. village (rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town)
   - 1903, Fanny zu Reventlow, Ellen Olestjerne, in Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Gesammelte Werke, Albert Langen, page 551 — In front of them was the village with its thatched roofs and the small, flat church steeple.
2. _figurative_ backwater (remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.)

## Examples

- Bei uns im Dorf kennt jeder jeden. — In our village everyone knows each other.
- Der See liefert Wasser für das Dorf. — Water for the village is supplied by the lake.
- Er soll nie sein Dorf verlassen haben. — People say that he never left his village.
- Mein Bruder lebt in einem kleinen Dorf. — My brother lives in a small village.
- Er war jedem im Dorf bekannt. — He was known to everybody in the village.

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