Leute

Meaning

people (several individual persons, a group of people in general, esp. of one kind or another), folk (folks), peeps (slang), guys (boys and/or girls)

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlɔʏ̯tə/

Etymology

From Middle High German liute, from Old High German liuti, also liudi, from Proto-West Germanic *liud(i), from Proto-Germanic *liudīz (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“man, people”).
Compare Dutch lieden, luden, luiden, Old Norse lýðir (“people”) (whence Icelandic lýður), Old Saxon liudi, Old English lēode (“people”), English lede (“people”), Gothic *𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌸𐍃 (*liuþs), Polish ludzie, Serbo-Croatian ljȗdi, Slovene ljudjẹ̑, Bulgarian люде (ljude), Russian люди (ljudi). More at leod and Proto-Slavic *ľudьje.

Sentences

Da nur Elizabeth ihn sehen kann , halten sie die anderen Leute bald für verrückt .

He causes chaos around the home and neighborhood, but nobody can see him except her.

Je mehr man ändern will , umso mehr Leute bringt man gegen sich auf .

The more you want to change, the more people you turn against yourself.

Die Studien zeigen ganz klar , dass die Leute gerne Geld ausgeben würden .

The studies clearly show that people would like to spend money.

Nacheinander bringt sie alle Konkurrenten sowie die Leute , die ihr im Weg stehen , um .

One by one, it kills all its competitors, as well as the people who stand in its way.

Die Leute haben regelrecht darum gebettelt .

People have been begging for it.