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blass

German, adjective/blas/

blass is spelled B-L-A-S-S (5 letters) and appears 4.5 times per million words in written German, the 13,339th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blass is a German adjective meaning “pale” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “von geringer, schwacher Farbstärke”.

What does blass mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    pale

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. von geringer, schwacher Farbstärke

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 blass

  • blasser masculine nominative singular
  • blässer comparative
  • am blassesten superlative
  • am blässesten superlative
  • blasse feminine nominative singular
  • blasses neuter nominative singular
  • blassen genitive masculine singular
  • blassem dative masculine singular
  • der blasse definite includes-article masculine
  • die blasse definite feminine includes-article
  • das blasse definite includes-article neuter
  • die blassen definite includes-article nominative
  • des blassen definite genitive includes-article
  • der blassen definite feminine genitive
  • dem blassen dative definite includes-article
  • blaß obsolete

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce blass?

  • /blas/
  • [blas]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to blass

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is blass in German?

blass appears 4.5 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).

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