Polyglot Dictionary

Mann

/man/

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 Männer

Meaning

  1. man

    Also colloquially "husband" — "mein Mann" (my husband), the way meine Frau means "my wife."

    • Der Mann trägt einen Anzug.

      The man is wearing a suit.

N Category Person Concreteness Concrete Animacy Animate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

man

Identical pronunciation, completely different word: Mann (capitalised, with two n's) means "man" the person. man (lowercase, one n) is the impersonal pronoun — easy to mix up in writing, never in meaning once you see them side by side.

Similar in other languages

French

homme

homme is the French word for the same thing — both mean "man."

Portuguese

homem

homem is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "man."

Practice

1 What does Mann mean?

2 Fill the gap: Der ___ trägt einen Anzug.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Mann?

See also

nouncore-vocabulary

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