Trauer
German, noun
Trauer is spelled T-R-A-U-E-R (6 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written German, the 5,473rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trauer is a German feminine noun meaning “grief, sorrow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, trauer is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Stimmungslage, die beim Verlust, insbesondere beim Tod eines geliebten Wesens auftritt”.
What does Trauer mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegrief, sorrow
- 2
femininemourning
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Stimmungslage, die beim Verlust, insbesondere beim Tod eines geliebten Wesens auftritt 2. Zeit des Trauerns nach einem Todesfall 3. die Trauerkleidung
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to Trauer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Trauer in German?
Trauer appears 13 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).