Polyglot Dictionary

Kopf

/kɔpf/

der 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 Köpfe

Meaning

  1. head

    • Mir tut der Kopf weh.

      My head hurts.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Gehirn

Gehirn is specifically the brain, the organ. Kopf is the whole head — face, skull, and everything in it.

Similar in other languages

Portuguese

cabeça

cabeça is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "head."

Practice

1 What does Kopf mean?

2 Fill the gap: Mir tut der ___ weh.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Kopf?

See also

nouncore-vocabularybody

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