Rente

See also: rente, renté, and rentę

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʁɛntə/
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Noun

Rente f (genitive Rente, plural Renten)

pension, retirement pay
in Rente ― on retirement pay

Usage notes

Note that the terms Rente and Pension have a slightly different meaning in Germany and Austria.

Note also that Rente is a false friend and does not mean “rent”. The general word for “rent” is Miete.

Declension

Declension of Rente [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Rente	die	Renten
genitive	einer	der	Rente	der	Renten
dative	einer	der	Rente	den	Renten
accusative	eine	die	Rente	die	Renten

Related terms

Altersrente
Frührente
Invalidenrente
Mütterrente
Sozialrente
Unfallrente

See also

Pension

Further reading

“Rente” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“Rente” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
“Rente” in Duden online
Rente on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Rente”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

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