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How to Say ‘About twenty square meters.’ in German

Ungefähr zwanzig Quadratmeter.

OON-geh-fair TSVAHN-tsikh kvah-DRAHT-may-ter

[OON-geh-fair TSVAHN-tsikh kvah-DRAHT-may-ter]

🇩🇪 In Germany: Room and apartment sizes in Germany are always given in square meters. Know yours, because installers size the unit by it.

Phrase Breakdown

Ungefähr zwanzig

OON-geh-fair TSVAHN-tsikh

About twenty

'Zwanzig' means twenty. The 'zw' sounds like 'tsv'.

Example

Ich bin ungefähr zwanzig.

I am about twenty.

Words in this phrase

Ungefähr

[OON-geh-fair]

approximately

Gives a rough number or estimate.

Example

Ungefähr zehn Leute kommen.

About ten people are coming.

zwanzig

[TSVAHN-tsikh]

twenty

The number 20; used for time and quantity.

Example

In zwanzig Minuten ist das Team bereit.

In twenty minutes the team is ready.

Quadratmeter.

kvah-DRAHT-may-ter

square meters.

'Qu' sounds like 'kv'. Stress the 'a' in 'drat': kva-DRAT-me-ter.

Example

Die Wohnung hat fünfzig Quadratmeter.

The apartment has fifty square meters.

Words in this phrase

Quadratmeter

[kvah-DRAHT-may-ter]

square meters

Unit for measuring area, used for room size.

Example

Die Wohnung hat sechzig Quadratmeter.

The apartment has sixty square meters.

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