Polyglot Dictionary

Fraktur

/fʁakˈtuːɐ̯/

die noun C1

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

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
Frakturen

Meaning

  1. fracture

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

knochenbruch

Fraktur and Knochenbruch are close synonyms for "bone fracture," largely interchangeable; Fraktur also separately names a Gothic blackletter typeface.

Similar in other languages

Portuguese

fratura

fratura is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "fracture."

Practice

1 What does Fraktur mean?

2 Fill the gap: Der Arzt stellte eine ___ fest.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Fraktur?

noun

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