Fräulein vs. Frau
posted 1 year ago
The title “Fräulein” is well-known worldwide. I have already been addressed as “Fräulein” sometimes. It always makes me smile, because it’s hardly used in Germany nowadays and considered to be oldfashioned.
“das Fräulein” literally means “little woman”. -lein is one of the suffixes used to create diminutives of nouns, in this case “die Frau”. Unmarried women were addressed as Fräulein e.g. Fräulein Müller and married women as Frau e.g. Frau Müller.
In the 1970s, the official usage of Fräulein was banned. Nowadays you refer to every woman as “Frau” regardless of her marital status.
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