Polyglot Dictionary

Großmutter

/ˈɡʁoːsˌmʊtɐ/

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 Großmütter

Meaning

  1. grandmother

N Category Person Concreteness Concrete Animacy Animate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • Groß big, great — here in the sense of a generation removed
  • Mutter mother

Similar words

Oma

Oma is the warm, everyday form of address — what a grandchild actually calls her. Großmutter is the neutral, more formal word.

Similar in other languages

French

grand-mère

grand-mère is the French word for the same thing — both mean "grandmother."

Portuguese

avó

avó is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "grandmother."

Practice

1 What does Großmutter mean?

2 Fill the gap: Meine ___ erzählt gern Geschichten.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Großmutter?

See also

nouncompoundfamily

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