Declension of German noun Brief with plural and article

The declension of the noun Brief (letter, ask) is in singular genitive Brief(e)s and in the plural nominative Briefe. The noun Brief is declined with the declension endings es/e. The voice of Brief is maskuline and the article "der". Here you can not only inflect Brief but also all German nouns. The noun is part of the thesaurus of Zertifikat Deutsch respectivly Level A1. Comments ☆

A1 · noun · masculine · regular · -s, -e

der Brief

Brief(e)s · Briefe

Endings es/e  

English letter, ask, epistle, sales letter

/bʁiːf/ · /ˈbʁiːfəs/ · /ˈbʁiːfə/

geschriebene, verschlossene Mitteilung, die per Post oder Boten verschickt wird; Schreiben, Sendschreiben, Epistel

» Tom schreibt Briefe . English Tom is writing letters.

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Declension of Brief in singular and plural in all cases

Singular

Nom. derBrief
Gen. desBriefes/Briefs
Dat. demBrief/Briefe⁶
Acc. denBrief

Plural

Nom. dieBriefe
Gen. derBriefe
Dat. denBriefen
Acc. dieBriefe

⁶ Only in exalted use

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Examples

Example sentences for Brief

  • Tom schreibt Briefe . 
    English Tom is writing letters.
  • Er schreibt einen Brief . 
    English He writes a letter.
  • Es ist ein wichtiger Brief . 
    English It is an important letter.
  • Ich schreibe keinen Brief auf Englisch. 
    English I won't write a letter in English.
  • Ich warte auf einen Brief von ihr. 
    English I am waiting for a letter from her.
  • Schreibst du einen Brief ? 
    English Are you writing a letter?
  • Er hat einen Brief geschrieben. 
    English He wrote a letter.
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Translations

Translation of German Brief

German Brief
English letter, ask, epistle, sales letter
Russian письмо, письмо́
Spanish carta, mensaje, misiva
French lettre, bafouille, envoi, lettre pastorale, message, missive, épître
Turkish mektup, yazı
Portuguese carta
Italian lettera, certificato, dispaccio, epistola, letter
Romanian scrisoare
Hungarian levél
Polish list, dokument
Greek επιστολή, γράμμα
Dutch brief, laatkoers, laten, mapje, schrijven, verkoopkoers
Czech dopis, list
Swedish brev
Danish brev
Japanese 手紙, 便り, 書簡, 書面
Catalan carta
Finnish kirje
Norwegian brev
Basque eskutitz, gutun, gutuna
Serbian pismo, писмо
Macedonian писмо
Slovenian pismo
Slowakisch list, dopis, písmeno
Bosnian pismo
Croatian pismo
Ukrainian лист, послання
Bulgarian писмо
Belorussian ліст, допіс
Indonesian surat
Vietnamese lá thư
Uzbek maktub
Hindi पत्र
Chinese 信件
Thai จดหมาย
Korean 편지
Azerbaijani məktub
Georgian წერილი
Bengali চিঠি
Albanian letër
Marathi पत्र
Nepali पत्र
Telugu పత్రం
Latvian vēstule
Tamil கடிதம்
Estonian kiri
Armenian էպիստիլ
Kurdish peyam
Hebrewמכתב
Arabicرسالة، جواب، خطاب، خِطَاب، مكتوب، مَكْتُوب
Persianنامه، پیام
Urduخط، پیغام

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Definitions

Meanings and synonyms of Brief
  • geschriebene, verschlossene Mitteilung, die per Post oder Boten verschickt wird, Schreiben, Sendschreiben, Epistel
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Declension forms of Brief

Summary of all declension forms of the noun Brief in all cases

The declension of Brief as a table with all forms in singular (singular) and plural (plural) and in all four cases nominative (1st case), genitive (2nd case), dative (3rd case) and accusative (4th case). Especially for German learners the correct declension of the word Brief is crucial.

Declension Brief

Singular Plural
Nom. der Brief die Briefe
Gen. des Brief(e)s der Briefe
Dat. dem Brief(e) den Briefen
Acc. den Brief die Briefe

Declension Brief

  • Singular: der Brief, des Brief(e)s, dem Brief(e), den Brief
  • Plural: die Briefe, der Briefe, den Briefen, die Briefe

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* Sentences by Tatoeba (tatoeba.org) are freely available under the CC BY 2.0 FR (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/fr/). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 1713262, 1572972, 441605, 7906054, 8808138, 180440, 443996

* Sentences from Nachrichtenleicht (nachrichtenleicht.de) are subject to the conditions stored there. This and the associated article can be looked up via: Streit um Leichte Sprache

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