blaugrau
German, adjective/ˈblaʊ̯ɡʁaʊ̯/
blaugrau is spelled B-L-A-U-G-R-A-U (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 98,214th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blaugrau is a German adjective meaning “blue-grey, slate blue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “gleichermaßen blau und grau (kopulativ) oder grau mit Blaustich (determinativ)”.
What does blaugrau mean in English?
adjective
- 1
blue-grey, slate blue
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. gleichermaßen blau und grau (kopulativ) oder grau mit Blaustich (determinativ)
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 blaugrau
- blaugrauer masculine nominative singular
- blaugraue feminine nominative singular
- blaugraues neuter nominative singular
- blaugrauen genitive masculine singular
- blaugrauem dative masculine singular
- der blaugraue definite includes-article masculine
- die blaugraue definite feminine includes-article
- das blaugraue definite includes-article neuter
- die blaugrauen definite includes-article nominative
- des blaugrauen definite genitive includes-article
- der blaugrauen definite feminine genitive
- dem blaugrauen dative definite includes-article
- den blaugrauen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce blaugrau?
- /ˈblaʊ̯ɡʁaʊ̯/
- [ˈblaʊ̯ɡʁaʊ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is blaugrau in German?
blaugrau appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).