Polyglot Dictionary

Hand

/hant/

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 Hände

Meaning

  1. hand

    • Wasch dir die Hände.

      Wash your hands.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Arm

Arm is the whole limb from shoulder to wrist. Hand is only the part below the wrist — the same containment relationship as Fuß inside Bein.

Similar in other languages

French

main

main is the French word for the same thing — both mean "hand."

Portuguese

mão

mão is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "hand."

Practice

1 What does Hand mean?

2 Fill the gap: Wasch dir die ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Hand?

See also

nouncore-vocabularybody

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