Bräune
German, noun
Bräune is spelled B-R-Ä-U-N-E (6 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written German, the 7,028th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bräune is a German feminine noun meaning “brownness, the quality of being brown” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, braune is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Farbe, welche aus den Farben Komplementärfarben rot, gelb und blau besteht”.
What does Bräune mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebrownness, the quality of being brown
Die Bräune des Holzes gibt dem Raum eine düstere Erscheinung.
- 2
femininetan
Nach den sonnigen Tagen hatte sie eine gesunde Bräune.
- 3
datedfemininequinsy, croup
adjective
- 1
femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- 2
strong nominative/accusative plural
- 3
weak nominative all-gender singular
- 4
feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Farbe, welche aus den Farben Komplementärfarben rot, gelb und blau besteht 2. akute, ansteckende Infektionskrankheit, die durch eine Infektion der oberen Atemwege mit dem grampositiven Corynebacterium diphtheriae hervorgerufen wird
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to Bräune
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Bräune in German?
Bräune 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).