Meaning

  1. false, unfactual, untrue
  2. wrong (incorrect)
  3. wrong (disadvantageous)
  4. (predicative) wrong (immoral)
  5. fake, forged
  6. untruthful, perfidious

Opposite of
wahr, wahrhaftig, richtig, korrekt, günstig, echt
Frequency

A2
Dialects

Zürich

Zürich

falsch

Aargau

Aargau

lätz

Appenzell Innerrhoden

Appenzell Innerrhoden

falsch

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

lätz

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/falʃ/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German valsche, valsch, from Old High German *falski, from Proto-West Germanic *falskī (“false, counterfeit”).

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