campsite
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campsite
A designated area where you can stay overnight for a fee with tents, caravans, or motorhomes. Such sites often provide sanitary facilities and other amenities.
Wir haben für den Sommer einen Stellplatz auf einem Campingplatz am Meer gebucht.
We booked a pitch at a campsite by the sea for the summer.
This word is a combination of the English loanword 'Camping' and the German word 'Platz' (place/site). So it literally means 'a place for camping.'
Dieser Campingplatz liegt direkt am See.
This campsite is located right by the lake.
The typical preposition for this word is 'auf'. Use 'auf den Campingplatz' (accusative) for movement there and 'auf dem Campingplatz' (dative) for a position or stay there.
Wir fahren am Wochenende auf einen Campingplatz in den Bergen.
We’re going to a campsite in the mountains this weekend.
Common expressions are 'einen Stellplatz auf dem Campingplatz mieten' (to rent a pitch at the campsite) or 'sein Zelt auf dem Campingplatz aufschlagen' (to pitch one's tent at the campsite). A 'Stellplatz' (pitch) is the specific spot you rent for your tent or motorhome.
Habt ihr schon einen Stellplatz auf dem Campingplatz reserviert?
Have you already reserved a pitch at the campsite?
tent camp
A Campingplatz and a Zeltlager are both places where people can spend the night in tents. A Campingplatz is a regularly operated, usually fee-based place to stay overnight and often also accommodates caravans or motorhomes; a Zeltlager, by contrast, refers to an organized communal camp. Use the word that matches the main focus.
Auf dem Campingplatz konnten wir neben unserem Zelt auch viele Wohnmobile sehen.
At the campsite, we could see many motorhomes as well as our tent.
Im Zeltlager schliefen alle Kinder gemeinsam in großen Zelten und nahmen an den Gruppenaktivitäten teil.
At the tent camp, all the children slept together in large tents and took part in the group activities.
