flau
German, adjective/flaʊ̯/
flau is spelled F-L-A-U (4 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 91,399th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flau is a German adjective meaning “calm, weak, (almost) windless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “schwach, matt”.
What does flau mean in English?
adjective
- 1
calm, weak, (almost) windless
- 2
flat, weak (of commerce, interest, atmosphere)
- 3
dizzy, nauseous, queasy
Mir wurde flau.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. schwach, matt
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 flau
- flauer masculine nominative singular
- am flauesten superlative
- am flausten superlative
- flaue feminine nominative singular
- flaues neuter nominative singular
- flauen genitive masculine singular
- flauem dative masculine singular
- der flaue definite includes-article masculine
- die flaue definite feminine includes-article
- das flaue definite includes-article neuter
- die flauen definite includes-article nominative
- des flauen definite genitive includes-article
- der flauen definite feminine genitive
- dem flauen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flau?
- /flaʊ̯/
- [flaʊ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flau
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flau in German?
flau 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).