 | English  | German | |
 | prospective {adj} [teacher, actor, physician, etc.; parents, father, etc.] | 824 angehend [Lehrer, Schauspieler, Arzt etc., auch: Eltern, Vater etc.] | |
| devoted {adj} [wife, husband, mother, father] | 641 liebend | |
| lone {adj} [Br.] [attr.] [mother, father] | 113 alleinerziehend | |
| posthumous {adj} [child, born after the death of the father] | 36 nachgeboren | |
| Nouns |
| patricide [the killing of one's father] | 627 Vatermord {m} | |
| hist. pol. sovereign ["father of his country"] | 21 Landesvater {m} | |
| patricide [person who murders his father] | 16 Vatermörder {m} [jemand, der seinen Vater ermordet] | |
| da [Irish: father] | 10 Vater {m} | |
| pop [Am.] [coll.] [father] | 5 Papi {m} [ugs.] | |
| bibl. Abba [familiar form of address for God Father] | Abba {m} [Anrede für Gottvater] | |
| aunt [sister of the father] | Vaterschwester {f} [veraltet] [Schwester des Vaters; Tante] | |
| equest. zool. damsire [in the breeding of horses etc.: the sire (father) of a dam (mother)] | Muttervater {m} | |
| FIL [also: fil] [coll.] [father-in-law] | Schwievater {m} [auch: SchwieVa, Schwieva] [ugs.] [Schwiegervater] | |
| housefather [archaic] [father of a family] | Hausvater {m} [veraltet] [Familienoberhaupt] | |
| bibl. geogr. hist. Midian [father of the Midianites] | Midian {m} [Stammvaters der Midianiter] | |
| patricide [killing of one's own father] | Patrizid {m} | |
| patrimony [inheritance from the father] | väterliches Erbe {n} | |
| Santa [Father Christmas] | Bulzermärtel {m} [ugs.] [fränkisch] [Weihnachtsmann] | |
| 2 Words: Others |
| -to-be {adj} [bride, father etc.] [postpos.] | zukünftige [attr.] | |
| 2 Words: Nouns |
| hist. relig. desert father [also: Desert Father] | Wüstenvater {m} | |
| hist. father figure ["father of his country"] | Landesvater {m} | |
| biol. gene source [future father of a woman's children] | Genträger {m} [hum.] | |
| old man [coll.] [father] | Alter {m} [ugs.] [Vater] | |
| old man [coll.] [father] | alter Herr {m} [ugs.] [Vater] | |
| paternal twins [coll.] [the offspring inherited characteristics mainly related to the father] | [eineiige Zwillinge, die vornehmlich Eigenschaften des Vaters vererbt bekommen haben] | |
| Rhenus Pater [Father Rhine] | Vater Rhein {m} [dichterisch, emotional, oft scherzhaft: der Fluss Rhein in der Personifizierung eines Vaters] | |
| hist. sports Turnvater Jahn [father of German gymnastics] | Turnvater {m} Jahn | |
| pol. Uncle Abe [also: Father Abe] [coll.] [nicknames of Abraham Lincoln] | Abraham Lincoln {m} | |
| 3 Words: Others |
| How's your ... (doing)? [coll.] [e.g. How's your mother / father doing?] | Wie geht's / gehts deiner / Ihrer / deinem / Ihrem ...? [ugs.] [z. B. Wie gehts deiner / Ihrer Mutter? Wie gehts deinem / Ihrem Vater?] | |
| 3 Words: Nouns |
| the old man [coll.] [e.g. father, husband, boss] | der Olle {m} [ugs.] [bes. nordd.] [z. B. Vater, Ehemann, Chef] | |
| the old man [coll.] [father] | der Alte {m} [ugs.] [salopp] [Vater] | |
| 4 Words: Nouns |
| relig. (St.) Antony the Great [also: Anthony the Great, Anthony of Egypt, Antony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, and Anthony of Thebes; known as "Father of All Monks"] | (St.) Antonius {m} der Große [auch: Antonius der Einsiedler, Antonius Eremita oder Antonius Abbas, „Vater der Mönche“] | |
| 5+ Words: Others |
| That's no way to talk / speak to your ...! [e.g. mother, father] | Wie redest du denn mit deiner / deinem ...! [z. B. Mutter, Vater] | |
| Fiction (Literature and Film) |
| lit. F Fly Away Home [literally transl.: Fly, Ladybird, Fly!: my father, the end of the war, Cohn and I] | Maikäfer, flieg! Mein Vater, das Kriegsende, Cohn und ich [Christine Nöstlinger] | |
| lit. F Le Père Goriot [also: Old Goriot or Father Goriot] [Honoré de Balzac] | Vater Goriot | |
