Nomen

die Investition

investment

Das war eine gute Investition.

That was a good investment.

Eine Investition in Bildung lohnt sich.

An investment in education is worthwhile.

((in+acc)) an investment in sth. Eine Investition in Bildung lohnt sich.

Synonyms: Anlage, Kapitalanlage (capital investment)

From Latin 'investire' (to clothe, to cover). The suffix '-tion' indicates a noun of action, common in many European languages.

Very similar to the English 'investment'. Remember that nouns ending in '-tion' are almost always feminine in German, so they take the article 'die'.

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