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Farbige

German, noun

Farbige is spelled F-A-R-B-I-G-E (7 letters) and appears 3.8 times per million words in written German, the 15,068th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Farbige is a German feminine noun meaning “female equivalent of Farbiger: female colored person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, farbige is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “weibliche Person, die einer Bevölkerungsgruppe angehört, deren Haut stark pigmentiert ist, im Gegensatz zum…”.

What does Farbige mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    datedfemininefemale equivalent of Farbiger: female colored person

noun

  1. 1

    masculinestrong nominative/accusative plural

  2. 2

    masculineweak nominative singular

adjective

as farbige
  1. 1

    femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular

  2. 2

    strong nominative/accusative plural

  3. 3

    weak nominative all-gender singular

  4. 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. weibliche Person, die einer Bevölkerungsgruppe angehört, deren Haut stark pigmentiert ist, im Gegensatz zum gering pigmentierten Menschentyp, der für Europa, Nordafrika und das westliche Asien charakteristisch ist 2. Angehörige der vorwiegend aus Mischlingen bestehenden und Afrikaans sprechenden Bevölkerungsgruppe in Südafrika

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 Farbige

  • die Farbige definite nominative
  • Farbiger genitive
  • der Farbigen definite genitive
  • die Farbigen definite plural
  • Farbigen dative plural strong
  • den Farbigen dative plural
  • eine Farbige nominative singular
  • keine Farbigen nominative plural
  • einer Farbigen genitive singular
  • keiner Farbigen genitive plural
  • keinen Farbigen dative plural

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

English words that translate to Farbige

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

How common is Farbige in German?

Farbige appears 3.8 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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