Polyglot Dictionary

Vater

/ˈfaːtɐ/

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 Väter

Meaning

  1. father

N Category Person Concreteness Concrete Animacy Animate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Papa

Same relationship as Mutter / Mama: Papa is what you call him directly; Vater is the neutral word for talking about him.

Similar in other languages

French

père

père is the French word for the same thing — both mean "father."

Portuguese

pai

pai is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "father."

Practice

1 What does Vater mean?

2 Fill the gap: Sein ___ ist Lehrer.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Vater?

See also

nouncore-vocabularyfamily

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