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