adjective
tidy, orderly
B1
Meaning: tidy, orderly — describes neat rooms, behaviour or systems. Comparative: ordentlicher; superlative: am ordentlichsten. Antonyms: unordentlich, chaotisch. Gradable, common for people’s habits or physical spaces. Not a participle; can also mean 'respectable' in some contexts. Often used in everyday speech and formal descriptions.
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Mein Zimmer ist sehr ordentlich.
My room is very tidy.
Die Bücher lagen ordentlich im Regal, weil die Bibliothekarin sie am Morgen geordnet hatte.
The books lay neatly on the shelf because the librarian had arranged them in the morning.
Er führt seine Akten immer ordentlich.
He always keeps his files in an orderly way.
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Picture neatly folded clothes in a drawer
sounds like 'order-lich' — think 'orderly'
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Used both attributively ('ein ordentliches Zimmer') and predicatively ('das Zimmer ist ordentlich'). Common collocations: 'ordentlich aufräumen', 'ordentlich aussehen'.