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Abstellkammer

storage room

noun AHP-shtel-kah-mer Rare

Also means

junk room

Usage Note

Abstellkammer is a small windowless room for storing things you rarely use, from abstellen (to put down/store). Often shortened in speech to Kammer; an even smaller broom cupboard may be called Besenkammer.

Examples

"Den alten Koffer haben wir in die Abstellkammer geräumt."

Natural Translation

We put the old suitcase away in the storage room.

Literal Translation

The old suitcase have we into the storage-room cleared.

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