grau
German, adjective
grau is spelled G-R-A-U (4 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written German, the 4,505th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grau is a German adjective meaning “grey, gray” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Grau is a different word: “grey (color)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “in einer Farbe, die eine Mischung aus schwarz und weiß ist, gehalten”.
What does grau mean in English?
adjective
- 1
grey, gray
noun
- 1
neutergrey (color)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. in einer Farbe, die eine Mischung aus schwarz und weiß ist, gehalten 2. trist 3. eigenschaftslos 4. längst vergangen, sehr alt
noun: 1. Name grauer Farbtöne, die überwiegend nur schwarze und weiße Anteile haben, Malfarbe, Streichfarbe 2. Reizlosigkeit 3. schlecht erfassbarer, wahrnehmbarer Zustand, meist zeitliche Ferne
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 grau
- grauer masculine nominative singular
- am grauesten superlative
- am grausten superlative
- graue feminine nominative singular
- graues neuter nominative singular
- grauen genitive masculine singular
- grauem dative masculine singular
- der graue definite includes-article masculine
- die graue definite feminine includes-article
- das graue definite includes-article neuter
- die grauen definite includes-article nominative
- des grauen definite genitive includes-article
- der grauen definite feminine genitive
- dem grauen dative definite includes-article
- Graus nominative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to grau
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grau in German?
grau appears 17 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).