noun
restaurant, eatery
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Restaurant (das) means restaurant or eatery — a place to dine. It's a neuter noun with regular plural Restaurants and standard declension (das Restaurant, des Restaurants). Common collocations: 'ins Restaurant gehen' (to go to a restaurant) and names on menus. Pronunciation: stress on '-rant'.
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Wir essen heute Abend im Restaurant.
We're eating at the restaurant tonight.
Am Abend gingen die Freunde ins Restaurant, weil sie großen Hunger hatten.
In the evening the friends went to the restaurant because they were very hungry.
Wir gehen heute Abend in ein italienisches Restaurant.
We are going to an Italian restaurant tonight.
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Picture an entrance sign 'Restaurant' with outdoor seating.
Same as English 'restaurant' — identical meaning.
das (neuter): imagine a neutral menu with 'das Restaurant' at the top.
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Borrowed from French; plural often 'Restaurants'.