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die Folklore

B2 Noun frequency rank #8,981

What Folklore means

Noun

  1. popular tales, music, festivals, clothing, etc.; old traditions and customs; folklore
  2. the artificial perpetuation of customs, their mere imitation or re-enactment

Forms

die Folklore · no common plural

Pronunciation

Folklore in a sentence

Wenn ich im Dorfkrug nur noch Hochdeutsch höre, sind die plattdeutschen Straßenschilder reine Folklore!

If I only hear High German in the village pub, the street signs in Low German are a mere re-enactment!

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Folklore is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #8,981 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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