tent camp
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tent camp
A camp or site where several tents are set up for a group of people, often as part of an organized event such as a holiday camp for children or a festival.
Die Pfadfinder verbringen die erste Ferienwoche im Zeltlager am See.
The scouts are spending the first week of the holidays at the tent camp by the lake.
The word is a clear compound of 'das Zelt' (the tent) and 'das Lager' (the camp). So it literally describes a camp that consists of tents.
Hinter dem Festivalgelände befindet sich ein riesiges Zeltlager.
Behind the festival grounds there is a huge tent camp.
To express movement to a place, you use 'ins Zeltlager' (to the tent camp; accusative). To describe being at this place, you use 'im Zeltlager' (at/in the tent camp; dative).
Nächste Woche fahren wir mit der Jugendgruppe ins Zeltlager.
Next week we are going to the tent camp with the youth group.
Common verbs in connection with 'Zeltlager' (tent camp) are 'ein Zeltlager aufschlagen' or 'errichten' (to set up a tent camp) and 'im Zeltlager übernachten' (to spend the night in a tent camp).
Die Gruppe schlug ihr Zeltlager in der Nähe eines Flusses auf.
The group set up their tent camp near a river.
campsite
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.
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.
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.
