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Meet die Frau

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All 5 meanings

  1. woman (adult female human)
  2. wife (married woman, especially in relation to her spouse)
  3. a title of courtesy, equivalent to Mrs/Ms, which has nearly replaced Fräulein in the function of Miss
  4. madam (polite form of address for a woman or lady)
  5. lady; noblewoman (woman of breeding or higher class)

Meanings from Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Forms

How the article changes

For die Frau, use the coloured columns: feminine and plural.

der, die, das
Casemasculinefeminineneuterplural
nominativederdiedasdie
accusativedendiedasdie
dativedemderdemden
ein, kein, mein: ein has no plural. mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser… end like kein.
Casemasculinefeminineneuterplural
nominativeeineineeinkeine
accusativeeineneineeinkeine
dativeeinemeinereinemkeinen

Plural die Frauen

Examples

  1. 1
    Die freundliche Frau arbeitet als Ärztin.The friendly woman works as a doctor.Nominative · subjectPractise „freundlich“ →
  2. 2
    Ich sehe eine junge Frau.I see a young woman.Accusative · sehenPractise „jung“ →
  3. 3
    Ich helfe einer kranken Frau.I help a sick woman.Dative · helfenPractise „krank“ →
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