Polyglot Dictionary

Obst

/oːpst/

das 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

Meaning

  1. fruit

    • Ich esse jeden Tag Obst.

      I eat fruit every day.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

frucht

Obst is the collective culinary term, fruit you eat and buy at a shop; Frucht is more biological or botanical, the fruit of a plant, and can also be used metaphorically, "fruit of one's labor."

Similar in other languages

Portuguese

fruta

fruta is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "fruit."

Portuguese

fruto

fruto is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "fruit."

Practice

1 What does Obst mean?

2 Fill the gap: Ich esse jeden Tag ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Obst?

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