Lotte schreibt jeden Monat den Verbrauch von Wasser und Strom in eine Tabelle. Every month Lotte writes down her water and electricity consumption in a table.

noun · B1

der Verbrauch

[fɛɐ̯ˈbʁaʊ̯x]

consumption, use

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Other Examples

Wir wollen unseren Verbrauch an Strom um zehn Prozent senken.

We want to cut our electricity consumption by ten percent.
Wie hoch ist der Verbrauch deines Autos?

What's your car's fuel consumption?
Frau Hilde sagt, dass der Verbrauch von Plastik früher viel kleiner war.

Frau Hilde says plastic consumption used to be much lower.

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Example
Nominative wer? was?	der Verbrauch	Wie hoch ist der Verbrauch deines Autos? What's your car's fuel consumption?
Accusative wen? was?	den Verbrauch	Wir wollen unseren Verbrauch an Strom um zehn Prozent senken. We want to cut our electricity consumption by ten percent.
Dative wem?	dem Verbrauch
Genitive wessen?	des Verbrauchs

How the Word Is Built

Ver prefix brauch root

ver-: often a change, a loss or "away": vermieten (to rent out), verlieren (to lose), sich verlaufen (to get lost).

Word family

verbrauchen der Verbraucher brauchen

In Otti's situations: Kalle cares about the climate, Kalle's house gets a solar roof

das Abgas abwägen die Anschaffung das Dach die Dämmung effizient einsparen die Energie erneuerbar erzeugen die Folge die Heizung

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