Mieter

German

Etymology

From Middle High German mietære. By surface analysis, mieten +‎ er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːtɐ/

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Noun

Mieter m (strong, genitive Mieters, plural Mieter, feminine Mieterin)

1. renter
2. tenant

Usage notes

Mieter usually refers to tenants of a residential property or smaller commercial property. Tenants of a piece of land (e.g., farmland, but also the land a residential property is built on), whole commercial buildings, petrol stations, and restaurants, taverns, inns, canteens, etc., are usually referred to as Pächter.

Declension

Declension of Mieter [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Mieter	die	Mieter
genitive	eines	des	Mieters	der	Mieter
dative	einem	dem	Mieter	den	Mietern
accusative	einen	den	Mieter	die	Mieter

Synonyms

• Mietmann, Mietsmann (obsolete)

Related terms

• mieten

Further reading

• “Mieter” in Duden online
• “Mieter”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Mieter” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon