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''However, it is also at least as likely to be spelled Fraulein in that case.''
In German, (: [frɔɪlaɪn]) '''Fräulein''' (literally, "little woman" or "little Mrs.", pronounced ) is used as a title for young girls and unmarried women.
| url = http://www.askoxford.com/languages/de/german_letters/?view=uk
| title = Writing Letters in German
| accessdate = 2006-09-29
| author = Oxford Dictionary
| authorlink = Oxford University Press
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| quote = Note that in German all married women are addressed as Frau (the equivalent of both Mrs. and Ms) in formal and business letters.
}}[1] Another usage of Fräulein in some regions is to address waitresses.[2]
''Fräulein'' can be translated as ''Miss or Ms.'' in English; ''Signorina'' in Italian; ''Mademoiselle'' in French; ''Senhorita'' in Portuguese; ''Señorita'' in Spanish; ''Maighdeann(-uasal)'' in Scottish Gaelic; and ''Ógbhean(-uasal)'' in Irish.
Literature and film have depicted the usage very well, in some cases already in the title. Examples are E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale ''Das Fräulein von Scuderi'' (1819), Elizabeth von Arnim's epistolary novel ''Fräulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther'' (1907), and the comedy film ''Fräulein vom Amt'' (1954), whose title was a common phrase denoting a female operator at a telephone exchange. In an earlier comedy film, ''Unser Fräulein Doktor'' (1940), Jenny Jugo plays Dr. Elisabeth Hansen, a young attractive teacher at a ''gymnasium'' who has to fight to be taken seriously as an intellectual.
In English-language film, ''fräulein'' has been used as a tip-off word that the actors are actually speaking German, despite it being English for the audience's sake. An example of this is The Sound of Music
"''Fräulein''" is the title of a 1957 song by Bobby Helms.
"''Fräulein''" is also the title of a 1960s song sung in German by Chris Howland [1].
"''Fräulein''", #n3, is also a member of the Arch Rival Roller Girls, a women's flat track roller derby league in St. Louis, Missouri.
The German pop star Fräulein Menke included the term "Fräulein" into her stage name. She was very successful in the early 80's.
1. Exeter University Beginners' German Exeter University Faculty
2. Switzerland Mary Murray Bosrock
★ Gender-neutral language
★ List of German expressions in English
In German, (: [frɔɪlaɪn]) '''Fräulein''' (literally, "little woman" or "little Mrs.", pronounced ) is used as a title for young girls and unmarried women.
| url = http://www.askoxford.com/languages/de/german_letters/?view=uk
| title = Writing Letters in German
| accessdate = 2006-09-29
| author = Oxford Dictionary
| authorlink = Oxford University Press
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| quote = Note that in German all married women are addressed as Frau (the equivalent of both Mrs. and Ms) in formal and business letters.
}}[1] Another usage of Fräulein in some regions is to address waitresses.[2]
''Fräulein'' can be translated as ''Miss or Ms.'' in English; ''Signorina'' in Italian; ''Mademoiselle'' in French; ''Senhorita'' in Portuguese; ''Señorita'' in Spanish; ''Maighdeann(-uasal)'' in Scottish Gaelic; and ''Ógbhean(-uasal)'' in Irish.
| Contents |
| Usage in culture |
| References |
| See also |
Usage in culture
Literature and film have depicted the usage very well, in some cases already in the title. Examples are E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale ''Das Fräulein von Scuderi'' (1819), Elizabeth von Arnim's epistolary novel ''Fräulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther'' (1907), and the comedy film ''Fräulein vom Amt'' (1954), whose title was a common phrase denoting a female operator at a telephone exchange. In an earlier comedy film, ''Unser Fräulein Doktor'' (1940), Jenny Jugo plays Dr. Elisabeth Hansen, a young attractive teacher at a ''gymnasium'' who has to fight to be taken seriously as an intellectual.
In English-language film, ''fräulein'' has been used as a tip-off word that the actors are actually speaking German, despite it being English for the audience's sake. An example of this is The Sound of Music
"''Fräulein''" is the title of a 1957 song by Bobby Helms.
"''Fräulein''" is also the title of a 1960s song sung in German by Chris Howland [1].
"''Fräulein''", #n3, is also a member of the Arch Rival Roller Girls, a women's flat track roller derby league in St. Louis, Missouri.
The German pop star Fräulein Menke included the term "Fräulein" into her stage name. She was very successful in the early 80's.
References
1. Exeter University Beginners' German Exeter University Faculty
2. Switzerland Mary Murray Bosrock
See also
★ Gender-neutral language
★ List of German expressions in English
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