Vokabahn

die Schwester

A1 Noun frequency rank #998

What Schwester means

Noun

  1. sister
  2. nurse; by extension used to refer to any medical staff that is not a doctor (usually, but not necessarily, confined to female staff)
  3. nurse; used as a title of address for nurses
  4. sister; nun; used particularly, but not only, as a title of address

Forms

die Schwester · die Schwestern

Plural: Schwestern

Pronunciation

Schwester in a sentence

Warum ist meine Schwester so gemein zu mir?

Why is my sister so mean to me?

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Schwester is A1 German — one of the first words a beginner meets, ranked #998 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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