Polyglot Dictionary

Eis

/aɪ̯s/

das noun A1

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. ice

  2. ice cream

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Mass Scope Individual

Similar words

Schnee

Schnee falls softly from the sky in flakes. Eis is solid, frozen water (or, confusingly, also the word for ice cream) — a different substance and a different texture entirely.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

hielo

hielo is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "ice."

Portuguese

gelo

gelo is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "ice."

Practice

1 What does Eis mean?

2 Fill the gap: Der See war mit ___ bedeckt.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Eis?

See also

nountwo-meaningscore-vocabulary

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