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der Gau

B2 Noun frequency rank #8,119

What Gau means

Noun

  1. shire; district

Forms

der Gau · die Gaue

Plural: Gaue

Pronunciation

Gau in a sentence

Im Mittelalter war jeder Gau einem eigenen Grafen unterstellt.

In the Middle Ages every shire was under a count of its own.

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Gau is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #8,119 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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