🇩🇪 German from 🇬🇧 English All Words
drei
A1 number Zahlen
🇬🇧 English: three
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🇩🇪 Hören & Wiederholen (German)

Definition

🇩🇪 German
number

Die natürliche Zahl zwischen der Zwei und der Vier.

Definition

🇬🇧 English

The number 3. It comes after two and before four.

Grammatik

🇩🇪 German

Gender: feminin (die). Plural: die Dreien.

🇬🇧 The 'th' sound in 'three' is the voiceless dental fricative /θ/ — place your tongue between your teeth and blow. This sound is common in English but rare in many other languages. Practice: think, thank, thirty, three.

Cultural Notes

🇬🇧 English

The number three appears frequently in English culture and stories: three wishes, three little pigs, three blind mice, Goldilocks and the three bears. 'Third time lucky' means that after two failures, the third attempt will succeed.

Beispielsätze

Er hält drei Golfbälle in der Hand.

"Er hält drei Golfbälle in der Hand."

🇬🇧 "He is holding three golf balls."

Ich habe drei Fische gefangen.

"Ich habe drei Fische gefangen."

🇬🇧 "I caught three fish."

Lückentext 🇩🇪 German

Er hält ___ Golfbälle in der Hand.

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