ersatz
An inauthentic or inadequate substitute or imitationAn inauthentic or inadequate substitute or imitation.
» They didn't have real coffee, so they drank ersatz.
Sie hatten keinen Bohnenkaffee, also tranken sie Muckefuck. — Dejo
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1 sensesAn inauthentic or inadequate substitute or imitation.
Back then, we could only get ersatz coffee.
- artificial and inferior
Examples
2 sentencesThey didn't have real coffee, so they drank ersatz.
deSie hatten keinen Bohnenkaffee, also tranken sie Muckefuck. — Dejo
Even the ersatz of the flies imposed their menu on us, the content of which I will not have to bellow.
Origin
Borrowed from German Ersatz (“replacement, substitute”), a back-formation from ersetzen (“Borrowed from German Ersatz (“replacement, substitute”), a back-formation from ersetzen (“to replace, to substitute”).
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Forms
more ersatz, most ersatz| Comparative | more ersatz Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most ersatz Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
8 synonyms- artificial and inferior:substitute
Lessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.