Common German Words A to Z

German Verbage A to Z
German Words That Begin With "F"

German - English

Fabrikant - manufacturer
Fabrikarbeiter - factory worker
Fallkind - illegitimate childen
Familiant - entailed renter of a house (inheriting cottagers) or head of the family (Jewish)
Familie - family
Familienbuch - family register
Familienforschung - genealogical research
Familienregister - family register
Färber - dyer
Faßbinder - cooper, barrel maker
Fäule - cancer
Fayencenhändler - porcelain merchant
Februar - February
Fehlgeburt - miscarriage
Festtag - feast day, festival day, holy day
Festung - fortress
Fieber - fever
Findling - foundling
Firmung - confirmation
Fischer - fisher
Fl. = Florin - standard monetary unit
Flecken - hamlet, also measles or spots
Fleckfieber - spotted fever, typhus
Fleischer - butcher
Fleischhauer - butcher
Flüchtling - refugee, deserter
Fluß - river
folgende - following, next
Forst - forest
Förster - forester
Fourier - quartermaster
Fraisen - convulsions, epilepsy, seizures, spasms
Frankreich - France
Frau - Mrs., wife, woman
Fräulein - Miss, unmarried woman
Freibauer - farmer who owns his own land
Freiherr - baron
Freitag - Friday
fremd - foreign, strange
Freund - friend
Friedhof - cemetery
Friesel - prickly heat, heat rash, miliaria
Friseur - hairdresser
früh - early (a.m.)
früher - former, formerly
Frühgeburt - premature birth
Frühkind - child born too soon after its parents married
Fuhrmann - waggoner
für - for
Fürst - prince, count
Fürstentum - principality