Lotte zweifelt an der Aussagekraft der Studie, weil nur ein Park untersucht wurde. Lotte doubts how meaningful the study is because only one park was examined.

noun · C1

die Aussagekraft

[ˈaʊ̯szaːɡəˌkʁaft]

significance, informative value, explanatory power

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Other Examples

Ich glaube, eine Umfrage unter zehn Freunden hat wenig Aussagekraft.

I think a survey of ten friends doesn't tell you much.
Wenn ihr mehr Daten sammelt, erhöht sich die Aussagekraft eurer Ergebnisse.

If you collect more data, your results will become more meaningful.
Mangels Vergleichsgruppe ist die Aussagekraft dieser Daten leider begrenzt.

For lack of a comparison group, the significance of these data is unfortunately limited.

Declension

The noun in the four cases, with the definite article.

Case	Singular	Example
Nominative wer? was?	die Aussagekraft
Accusative wen? was?	die Aussagekraft
Dative wem?	der Aussagekraft
Genitive wessen?	der Aussagekraft

How the Word Is Built

Aus prefix sag root e suffix kraft root

aus-: out: aussteigen (to get off), ausgehen (to go out). Separable: Wir steigen aus.

A compound: Aussage + die Kraft

The last word gives the article. More rules

Word family

die Aussageaussagekräftigaussagendie Kraft

In Otti's situations: Lotte reviews a scientific article

ableiten auf wackligen Beinen stehen der Befund begutachten belegen der Fachartikel die Fachzeitschrift das Gutachten die Hypothese die Kausalität die Korrelation kritisch

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