Vocabulary
ordern
/ˈɔʁdɐn/· verb
to order (goods in trade; shares); (casual) to order (food, drinks)
Ordern is business and stock-market German for bestellen: retailers order stock, airlines order aircraft, investors order shares; casually you can also order a round of drinks.
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Conjugation
- ich
- ordere
- du
- orderst
- er/sie/es
- ordert
- wir
- ordern
- ihr
- ordert
- sie/Sie
- ordern
Perfekt hat geordertPräteritum orderte
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ordern
order (goods, in business)
Die Fluggesellschaft hat 40 neue Maschinen beim Hersteller geordert.
The airline has ordered 40 new aircraft from the manufacturer.
Word family
orderndie Order(commercial) ordernachordernto reordervorordernto pre-order
Common combinations
- Ware ordernto order stock
- nachordern müssento have to reorder
- online ordernto order online
- Aktien ordernto place an order for shares
Similar & opposite
≈ Synonyms
bestellen
Common learner mistakes
- Ich habe eine Pizza geordnet.Ich habe eine Pizza geordert. (or: bestellt)geordnet comes from ordnen (to put in order); the participle of ordern is geordert.
Real examples
- Die Händler haben für das Weihnachtsgeschäft deutlich weniger Ware geordert als im Vorjahr.Retailers have ordered noticeably less stock for the Christmas season than last year.
- Über die App lassen sich Aktien rund um die Uhr ordern.Shares can be ordered around the clock via the app.
- Kaum saßen sie im Biergarten, orderte er schon die erste Runde.They had barely sat down in the beer garden when he ordered the first round.
