Freund

Meaning

Noun

1. (masculine,strong) friend
2. (masculine,strong) boyfriend
3. (masculine,obsolete,strong) blood relative (in the sense of a person that is or should be one’s friend by nature)

Name

a surname

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/frɔʏ̯nt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German vriunt, from Old High German friunt, from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz (“lit., the loving one; lover, loved one, friend”), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *preyH-.
Cognate with Dutch vriend, German Low German Fründ, Luxembourgish Frënd, West Frisian freon, English friend, Danish frænde (“relative”), Faroese frændi (“friend, relative”), Icelandic frændi (“relative”), Norwegian Bokmål frende (“relative”), Norwegian Nynorsk frende (“relative”), Swedish frände (“relative”), Welsh ffrind (“friend”), Yiddish פֿרײַנד (fraynd, “friend”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌾𐍉𐌽𐌳𐍃 (frijōnds, “friend”), Old English frēond (“friend, lover”), Old Norse frændi (“friend, relative”).

Sentences

Mein Freund kann Ihnen das eins zu eins bestätigen .

My friend can confirm this one on one.

Mein Freund ist Musiker .

My friend is a musician.

Der Vater und Freund von Jack Devlin arrangiert diesen , der kurzen Prozess macht .

Jack Devlin's father and friend arranges this, which is a short process.

Dort zieht sich inzwischen Eliza für ihren chinesischen Freund erstmals wieder Frauenkleider an .

Meanwhile in Valparaiso, Rose and Jeremy are shocked to find that Eliza has disappeared.