fair
German, adjective/fɛːr/
fair is spelled F-A-I-R (4 letters) and appears 25 times per million words in written German, the 3,312th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fair is a German adjective meaning “fair (just, honest, equitable, adequate)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “den Regeln, Richtlinien entsprechend”.
What does fair mean in English?
adjective
- 1
fair (just, honest, equitable, adequate)
ein faires Spiel
prefix
- 1
Variant of ver-; creates verbs meaning to do something related to the stem in a fairtrade, socially conscious or environmentally friendly way.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. den Regeln, Richtlinien entsprechend 2. die Rechte anderer achtend
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 fair
- fairer masculine nominative singular
- am fairsten superlative
- faire feminine nominative singular
- faires neuter nominative singular
- fairen genitive masculine singular
- fairem dative masculine singular
- der faire definite includes-article masculine
- die faire definite feminine includes-article
- das faire definite includes-article neuter
- die fairen definite includes-article nominative
- des fairen definite genitive includes-article
- der fairen definite feminine genitive
- dem fairen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fair?
- /fɛːr/
- [fɛːɐ̯]
- [feːɐ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fair
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fair in German?
fair appears 25 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).