"früher" meaning in German

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Adjective

Etymology: Comparative of früh (“early”), which see. Head templates: {{head|de|comparative adjective}} früher
  1. comparative degree of früh: earlier Tags: comparative, form-of Form of: früh (extra: earlier) Synonyms: eher
    Sense id: en-früher-de-adj-leZLf7ur Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 36 3 38 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 37 1 39 23 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 1 38 25

Adjective

Etymology: Comparative of früh (“early”), which see. Head templates: {{de-adj}} früher (strong nominative masculine singular früherer, not comparable) Inflection templates: {{de-adecl}} Forms: früherer [masculine, nominative, singular, strong], no-table-tags [table-tags], früher [masculine, predicative, singular], früher [feminine, predicative, singular], früher [neuter, predicative, singular], früher [plural, predicative], früherer [masculine, nominative, singular, strong, without-article], frühere [feminine, nominative, singular, strong, without-article], früheres [neuter, nominative, singular, strong, without-article], frühere [nominative, plural, strong, without-article], früheren [genitive, masculine, singular, strong, without-article], früherer [feminine, genitive, singular, strong, without-article], früheren [genitive, neuter, singular, strong, without-article], früherer [genitive, plural, strong, without-article], früherem [dative, masculine, singular, strong, without-article], früherer [dative, feminine, singular, strong, without-article], früherem [dative, neuter, singular, strong, without-article], früheren [dative, plural, strong, without-article], früheren [accusative, masculine, singular, strong, without-article], frühere [accusative, feminine, singular, strong, without-article], früheres [accusative, neuter, singular, strong, without-article], frühere [accusative, plural, strong, without-article], der frühere [definite, includes-article, masculine, nominative, singular, weak], die frühere [definite, feminine, includes-article, nominative, singular, weak], das frühere [definite, includes-article, neuter, nominative, singular, weak], die früheren [definite, includes-article, nominative, plural, weak], des früheren [definite, genitive, includes-article, masculine, singular, weak], der früheren [definite, feminine, genitive, includes-article, singular, weak], des früheren [definite, genitive, includes-article, neuter, singular, weak], der früheren [definite, genitive, includes-article, plural, weak], dem früheren [dative, definite, includes-article, masculine, singular, weak], der früheren [dative, definite, feminine, includes-article, singular, weak], dem früheren [dative, definite, includes-article, neuter, singular, weak], den früheren [dative, definite, includes-article, plural, weak], den früheren [accusative, definite, includes-article, masculine, singular, weak], die frühere [accusative, definite, feminine, includes-article, singular, weak], das frühere [accusative, definite, includes-article, neuter, singular, weak], die früheren [accusative, definite, includes-article, plural, weak], ein früherer [includes-article, indefinite, masculine, mixed, nominative, singular], eine frühere [feminine, includes-article, indefinite, mixed, nominative, singular], ein früheres [includes-article, indefinite, mixed, neuter, nominative, singular], früheren [indefinite, mixed, nominative, plural], keine früheren [includes-article, indefinite, mixed, negative, nominative, plural], eines früheren [genitive, includes-article, indefinite, masculine, mixed, singular], einer früheren [feminine, genitive, includes-article, indefinite, mixed, singular], eines früheren [genitive, includes-article, indefinite, mixed, neuter, singular], früheren [genitive, indefinite, mixed, plural], keiner früheren [genitive, includes-article, indefinite, mixed, negative, plural], einem früheren [dative, includes-article, indefinite, masculine, mixed, singular], einer früheren [dative, feminine, includes-article, indefinite, mixed, singular], einem früheren [dative, includes-article, indefinite, mixed, neuter, singular], früheren [dative, indefinite, mixed, plural], keinen früheren [dative, includes-article, indefinite, mixed, negative, plural], einen früheren [accusative, includes-article, indefinite, masculine, mixed, singular], eine frühere [accusative, feminine, includes-article, indefinite, mixed, singular], ein früheres [accusative, includes-article, indefinite, mixed, neuter, singular], früheren [accusative, indefinite, mixed, plural], keine früheren [accusative, includes-article, indefinite, mixed, negative, plural]
  1. former, erstwhile, previous (that which once was, but no longer is) Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: ehemalig, einstig, vormalig Related terms: vorherig (english: previous, immediately preceding)
    Sense id: en-früher-de-adj-96eD0fiP

Adverb

Etymology: Comparative of früh (“early”), which see. Head templates: {{head|de|adverb||||am {{{2}}}|head=|sort=}} früher, {{de-adv}} früher
  1. comparative degree of früh Tags: comparative, form-of Form of: früh Synonyms: eher, zeitiger
    Sense id: en-früher-de-adv-IZCgI2Nr Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 36 3 38 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 37 1 39 23 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 1 38 25
  2. formerly, in the past (often years ago, in contrast to nowadays) Synonyms: einst
    Sense id: en-früher-de-adv-s8dVOTpd Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 36 3 38 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 37 1 39 23 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 36 1 38 25
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (9c82c1c and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.