German adjective · CEFR A1
grau
Meaning in English: grey
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Colours in German list.
Example
Der Himmel ist heute grau und trüb.
The sky is grey and dull today.
How common is grau?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, grau appears 7.4 times per million words — about once every 140,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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