Polyglot Dictionary

Haarbürste

/ˈhaːɐ̯ˌbʏʁstə/

die noun A2

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 Haarbürsten

Meaning

  1. hairbrush

    Built from Haar (hair) + Bürste (brush).

    • Hast du meine Haarbürste gesehen?

      Have you seen my hairbrush?

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Made of

  • Haar hair
  • Bürste brush

Similar words

Zahnbürste

Same pattern, different body part: Haarbürste (Haar "hair" + Bürste) is a hairbrush. German builds a whole family of tools this way — whatever needs brushing goes in front of -bürste.

Similar in other languages

French

brosse à cheveux

brosse à cheveux is the French word for the same thing — both mean "hairbrush."

Practice

1 What does Haarbürste mean?

2 Fill the gap: Hast du meine ___ gesehen?

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Haarbürste?

nouncompound

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