adjective
female, feminine
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Adjective meaning 'female' or 'feminine', used for biological sex or feminine qualities. Gradable: comparative weiblicher, superlative am weiblichsten. Antonym: männlich. No specific preposition or reflexive use. Not a participle. Common collocations: weibliche Stimme, weiblicher Artikel; used attributively and predicatively regularly.
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Die Ärztin meinte, dass eine weibliche Patientin eine andere Dosis erhalten würde, weil die Studie andere Werte gezeigt hatte.
The doctor thought that a female patient would receive a different dose because the study had shown different values.
Die Sprache hat weibliche Formen.
The language has feminine forms.
Das Tier ist weiblich.
The animal is female.
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Picture a female symbol (♀) to link to 'weiblich'
weiblich — sounds like 'wife-lich' so think 'female'
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Adjective describing feminine gender. Can be used attributively or predicatively.