Polyglot Dictionary

zu

/tsuː/

preposition, adverb A1

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

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

prep Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. to (a place or person)

    • Ich gehe zu meiner Mutter.

      I'm going to my mother's.

  2. too (excessively)

    as an adverb before an adjective

    • Das ist mir zu teuer.

      That's too expensive for me.

  3. closed

    colloquial adverb

Practice

1 What does zu mean?

2 Fill the gap: Ich gehe ___ meiner Mutter.

See also

prepositionadverbcore-vocabularygrammar

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