Frau

Meaning

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

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fʁaʊ̯/

Etymology

From Middle High German vrouwe, vrowe, from Old High German frouwa (“mistress”), from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ, a feminine form of *frawjô (“lord”), giving Old English frēa (“lord, king; God, Christ; husband”), frēo (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *proHwo-, a derivation from *per- (“to go forward”).
Cognate with Old Saxon frūa (hence Middle Low German vrouwe, Modern Low German frug), Old Norse freyja and frú (hence Icelandic frú and Norwegian frue). Further cognates include German Fron (“corvée, soccage”) and its kin. The Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Slavic *pravъ (“right, straight, correct”), whence Old Church Slavonic правъ (pravŭ), Russian пра́вый (právyj, “right”), perhaps also Ancient Greek πρῶρα (prôra, “bow, prow”) and the first element of Latin provincia, if this is from Proto-Indo-European *prōwiōn.

Sentences

Sie ist damit die erste Frau an der Spitze der Schwedischen Kirche .

This makes her the first woman to lead the Church of Sweden.

Sie ist die erste und bisher einzige Frau , die mit dem Werner-von-Siemens-Ring ausgezeichnet wurde .

She is the first and so far only woman to have been awarded the Werner von Siemens Ring.

Im selben Jahr hatte er geheiratet und zog nun mit seiner Frau nach Hattiesburg.

In the same year he had married and now moved with his wife to Hattiesburg.

Seither lebt er in Wien und Bukarest , der Heimat seiner zweiten Frau .

Since then, he has lived in Vienna and Bucharest, the home of his second wife.

Frau Morvai, Ihre Anfrage wurde nicht in diesem Sinne gestellt .

Ms. Morvai, your request was not made in this sense.

Ich habe Ihnen , Frau Scheele , den Standpunkt des Rates mitgeteilt .

Mrs Scheele, I have outlined to you what the Council' s position is and what the discussions might have related to.

Seine Frau unterrichtet Deutsch in einer von ihr gegründeten Sprachschule .

His wife teaches German at a language school she founded.

Begraben ist er am Friedhof in Mödling , wo bereits seine Frau bestattet wurde .

He is buried at the cemetery in Mödling, where his wife has already been buried.