German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Ehefrau
Meaning in English: wife
Example
Darf ich Ihnen meine Ehefrau vorstellen?
May I introduce my wife?
Der, die or das?
Ehefrau is feminine: die Ehefrau. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Ehefrau?
Ehefrau is number 4,383 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 54,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Ehefrau is built from die Frau (woman; wife; Mrs).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,379tieferdeeper, lower
- 4,380der Strichline, stroke
- 4,381die Geduldpatience
- 4,382die Fraktionparliamentary group, faction
- 4,383die Ehefrauwife
- 4,384bedingtpartly, to a limited extent; due to
- 4,385relevanterelevant
- 4,386Einsätzecall-outs, missions, stakes
- 4,387der Hafenport, harbour
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,383
- The most common German nouns#1,903
- German A2 vocabulary#884
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#620
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