Geduldsfaden
German, noun
Geduldsfaden is spelled G-E-D-U-L-D-S-F-A-D-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 101,039th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Geduldsfaden is a German masculine noun meaning “patience (seen as a notional thread that can break)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Geduldsfäden is a different word: “nominative/genitive/dative/accusative plural of Geduldsfaden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Geduld einer Person als Faden gedacht (der bei Ungeduld gespannt ist und reißt, sobald jemand die Geduld…”.
What does Geduldsfaden mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepatience (seen as a notional thread that can break)
Mir reißt der Geduldsfaden!
noun
- 1
nominative/genitive/dative/accusative plural of Geduldsfaden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. die Geduld einer Person als Faden gedacht (der bei Ungeduld gespannt ist und reißt, sobald jemand die Geduld verliert)
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 Geduldsfaden
- Geduldsfadens genitive
- Geduldsfäden plural uncommon
- Geduldfaden variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Geduldsfaden in German?
Geduldsfaden 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).