die Frau
Meaning in English: woman; wife; Mrs
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Die Frau an der Kasse war sehr freundlich.
The woman at the till was very friendly.
Der, die or das?
Frau is feminine: die Frau. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Frau in the top 5,000
These forms of Frau are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
In unserem Team arbeiten mehr Frauen als Männer.
More women than men work in our team.
How common is Frau?
Frau is number 273 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 316 times per million words — about once every 3,200 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 53% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Words built on Frau:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 269die Entwicklungdevelopment
- 270die Möglichkeitpossibility, opportunity
- 271fastalmost, nearly
- 272zeigtshows
- 273die Frauwoman; wife; Mrs
- 274langelong, for a long time
- 275zwaradmittedly (zwar … aber)
- 276gutegood
- 277unserour
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#273
- The 1,000 most common German words#273
- The 5,000 most common German words#273
- The most common German nouns#38
- German A1 vocabulary#168
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#11
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.