Polyglot Dictionary

Frau

/fʁaʊ̯/

die 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

Forms

plural
die Frauen

Meaning

  1. woman; wife

    Also the standard title before a surname, regardless of marital status — "Frau Müller," the way "Ms." works in modern English.

N Category Person Concreteness Concrete Animacy Animate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Similar in other languages

Spanish

mujer

mujer is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "woman; wife."

French

femme

femme is the French word for the same thing — both mean "woman; wife."

Practice

1 What does Frau mean?

2 Fill the gap: Diese ___ ist meine Chefin.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Frau?

See also

nouncore-vocabulary

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