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traut

German, adjective[tʁaʊ̯t]

traut is spelled T-R-A-U-T (5 letters) and appears 8.5 times per million words in written German, the 8,046th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Traut is a German adjective meaning “intimate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present of trauen. The German Wiktionary defines it as “bestens bekannt und Wohlbehagen erweckend”.

What does traut mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    intimate

    in trauter Runde

  2. 2

    dear

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present

  2. 2

    second-person plural present

  3. 3

    plural imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. bestens bekannt und Wohlbehagen erweckend

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 traut

  • trauter masculine nominative singular
  • am trautesten superlative
  • traute feminine nominative singular
  • trautes neuter nominative singular
  • trauten genitive masculine singular
  • trautem dative masculine singular
  • der traute definite includes-article masculine
  • die traute definite feminine includes-article
  • das traute definite includes-article neuter
  • die trauten definite includes-article nominative
  • des trauten definite genitive includes-article
  • der trauten definite feminine genitive
  • dem trauten dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce traut?

  • [tʁaʊ̯t]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is traut in German?

traut appears 8.5 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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