Referendariat

German

Pronunciation

• (prescribed, southern) IPA^(key): [ˌʁefeʁendaʁiˌaːt]
• (prescribed, northern) IPA^(key): [ˌʁefəʁɛndaˈʁi̯aːt]
• (colloquial northern and western Germany) IPA^(key): [ˌʁɛfəʁəndaʁiˌaːt]
• (idem, fast speech) IPA^(key): [ˌʁɛfə̆ʁəndaɐ̯ˌjaːt]

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• Hyphenation: Re‧fe‧ren‧da‧ri‧at

Noun

Referendariat m (strong, genitive Referendariates or Referendariats, plural Referendariate)

1. preparatory service for public office requiring successful university education of master's length

   Hypernym: Vorbereitungsdienst

Declension

Declension of Referendariat [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Referendariat	die	Referendariate
genitive	eines	des	Referendariates, Referendariats	der	Referendariate
dative	einem	dem	Referendariat, Referendariate1	den	Referendariaten
accusative	einen	den	Referendariat	die	Referendariate

¹Now rare, see notes.

Further reading

• “Referendariat” in Duden online
• “Referendariat” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Referendariat” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• Referendariat on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de