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This is not used together with both Herr/Frau and their name, though in the address, it is quite common to address a religious priest who does pastoral work in a parish orally as Herr Pater ("Mr. Father"). (Note generally that the translation of "Father" into German is only used for the Pope and for abbots, and into Latin only for religious ...
Fräulein is the diminutive form of Frau, which was previously reserved only for married women. Frau is in origin the equivalent of "My lady" or "Madam", a form of address of a noblewoman. But by an ongoing process of devaluation of honorifics, it came to be used as the unmarked term for "woman" by about 1800.
Frau: Mrs./Ms. In modern usage any woman age 18 or above is addressed as Frau, whether married or not. L, T, DW fr. frei: free DW Frl. Fräulein: Miss In modern usage any woman age 18 or above is addressed as Frau, whether married or not. L, T Frfr. Freifrau
Frau is a German honorific for women. Frau may also refer to: Frau (band), an English all-female hardcore punk band; Frau Antje, a Dutch advertising character marketed to German audiences; Frau Ava, the first named female writer in any genre in the German language; Frau Ella, a 2013 German comedy film
According to Jacob Grimm (1882), Perchta was spoken of in Old High German in the 10th century as Frau Berchta and thought to be a white-robed goddess who oversaw spinning and weaving, like the myths of Holda. He believed she was the feminine equivalent of Berchtold, and was sometimes the leader of the Wild Hunt. However, John B. Smith disagrees ...
In doing so, they can either both adopt the husband's name, or both adopt the wife's name as an Ehename: Herr Meyer and Frau Meyer; Herr Schmidt and Frau Schmidt. One partner, but not both, may combine both names by a hyphen. Thus, one of them then bears a double name (Doppelname). (Herr Schmidt and Frau Meyer-Schmidt (or Frau Schmidt-Meyer ...
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Gott mit uns – meaning "God be with us", the motto of the Prussian king was used as a morale slogan amongst soldiers in both World Wars. It was bastardized as "Got mittens" by American and British soldiers, and is usually used nowadays, because of the German defeat in both wars, derisively to mean that wars are not won on religious grounds.