Polyglot Dictionary

Tante

/ˈtantə/

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 Tanten

Meaning

  1. aunt

    • Meine Tante besucht uns morgen.

      My aunt is visiting us tomorrow.

N Category Person Concreteness Concrete Animacy Animate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Similar in other languages

French

tante

tante is the French word for the same thing — both mean "aunt."

Portuguese

tia

tia is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "aunt."

Practice

1 What does Tante mean?

2 Fill the gap: Meine ___ besucht uns morgen.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Tante?

See also

nouncore-vocabularyfamily

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