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# berlin

«berlin» in Mova's school dictionary: **the capital city of Germany and its largest city** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, a name (Berlin)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) Berlin is the capital city of Germany and its largest city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/berlin/#m1)

2) In history, Berlin was divided into East and West Berlin by the Berlin Wall during the Cold War; the Wall came down and Germany became one country again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/berlin/#m2)

3) (rare) A berlin (berline) is an old kind of four-wheeled carriage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/berlin/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons Berlin is a European capital on the River Spree. In history lessons about the Second World War and the Cold War, pupils learn that the city was split, people were stopped from crossing, and the fall of the Berlin Wall was a time of great joy. In everyday life, Berlin is a place people visit for its museums, the Brandenburg Gate and bits of the Wall. Phrases: the Berlin Wall, East Berlin, West Berlin, the fall of the Berlin Wall.

### examples

- Berlin is the capital of Germany. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/berlin/#x1)
- The Berlin Wall split the city in two. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/berlin/#x2)
- People danced on the Berlin Wall the night it opened. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/berlin/#x3)
- We saw a piece of the Berlin Wall in a museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/berlin/#x4)
- The Brandenburg Gate is a famous sight in Berlin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/berlin/#x5)
- Many families were separated when the wall was built across Berlin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/berlin/#x6)
- Berlin has more bridges than Venice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/berlin/#x7)
- Our class wrote postcards from an imaginary trip to Berlin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/berlin/#x8)

### note

A name, so it takes a capital B: Berlin. Pronounced «bur-LIN». A person from Berlin is a Berliner. Not to be confused with Bern (the capital of Switzerland).

### In the corpora

- [Germany, with its capital Berlin, has the most people of any country wholly in Europe, about 84 million.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/7-europe-countries-and-capitals/8/)
- [At the Berlin Conference of 1884 to 1885, European powers set rules for claiming African land, and no African rulers were invited.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «berlin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/berlin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.