gries
German, adjective/ɡʁiːs/
gries is spelled G-R-I-E-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 47,290th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gries is a German adjective meaning “grey, greyish (chiefly of hair and weather)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “grau, grauhaarig oder trübe beim Wetter”.
What does gries mean in English?
adjective
- 1
grey, greyish (chiefly of hair and weather)
Bei all den griesen Wolken kann man ja depressiv werden…
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. grau, grauhaarig oder trübe beim Wetter
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 gries
- grieser masculine nominative singular
- am griesesten superlative
- griese feminine nominative singular
- grieses neuter nominative singular
- griesen genitive masculine singular
- griesem dative masculine singular
- der griese definite includes-article masculine
- die griese definite feminine includes-article
- das griese definite includes-article neuter
- die griesen definite includes-article nominative
- des griesen definite genitive includes-article
- der griesen definite feminine genitive
- dem griesen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gries?
- /ɡʁiːs/
- [ɡʁiːs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is gries in German?
gries appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).