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Fremde

German, noun

Fremde is spelled F-R-E-M-D-E (6 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written German, the 3,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fremde is a German feminine noun meaning “foreign land” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a female equivalent of Fremder: female stranger; female alien, female foreigner. In lower case, fremde is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine weibliche Person, die man nicht kennt”.

What does Fremde mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininefemale equivalent of Fremder: female stranger; female alien, female foreigner

  2. 2

    feminineforeign land

noun

  1. 1

    masculinestrong nominative/accusative plural

  2. 2

    masculineweak nominative singular

adjective

as fremde
  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. eine weibliche Person, die man nicht kennt 2. eine weibliche Person, die aus einem anderen Teil des Landes oder aus einem anderen Land stammt

noun: 1. Gegend, die einem unbekannt ist, die (weit) entfernt von der Heimat liegt

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 Fremde

  • die Fremde definite nominative
  • Fremder genitive
  • der Fremden definite genitive
  • die Fremden definite plural
  • Fremden dative plural strong
  • den Fremden dative plural
  • eine Fremde nominative singular
  • keine Fremden nominative plural
  • einer Fremden genitive singular
  • keiner Fremden genitive plural
  • keinen Fremden dative plural

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

English words that translate to Fremde

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

How common is Fremde in German?

Fremde appears 23 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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