Polyglot Dictionary

Laub

/laʊ̯p/

das noun B2

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. foliage

    • Das Laub färbt sich im Herbst.

      The foliage changes colour in autumn.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Blatt

Blatt is a single leaf; Laub is the collective word for foliage, all the leaves on a tree or the ground together.

Similar in other languages

French

feuillage

feuillage is the French word for the same thing — both mean "foliage."

Portuguese

folhagem

folhagem is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "foliage."

Practice

1 What does Laub mean?

2 Fill the gap: Das ___ färbt sich im Herbst.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Laub?

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