Ära
German, noun
Ära is spelled Ä-R-A (3 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written German, the 7,028th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ära is a German feminine noun meaning “era” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its umlaut, Ara is a different word: “macaw”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein Zeitalter oder Zeitabschnitt der Geschichte”.
What does Ära mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineera
noun
- 1
masculinemacaw
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ein Zeitalter oder Zeitabschnitt der Geschichte 2. eine für eine bestimmte Kultur geltende Zeitrechnung 3. Zeitabschnitt in der Geochronologie, die der Gliederung der Gesteinskörper nach dem Alter ab ihrer Entstehung entspricht
noun: 1. neuweltlicher, langschwänziger Papagei
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Ära
- Aras genitive
- Ären plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Ära
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Ära in German?
Ära appears 10 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).