# die Brache

die Brache is a German noun meaning “fallow”. Forms: der Brache, die Brachen.

## Forms

- Genitive: der Brache
- Plural: die Brachen

## In other languages

- Русский: пустырь

## Meanings

1. fallow (unseeded arable land)
2. fallow, fallowness (time or state of being unseeded)
3. _figurative_ something that is not sufficiently exploited or taken care of, something that requires work
4. fallow; fallow ground; fallow land , (Br.) ploughed land , (Am.) plowed land
   - Die Brache war durchrissen von den Furchen des Pflugs.
5. _Städtebau_ urban waste; waste land
   - Die sechs Hektar große Brache auf dem Gärtnereigrundstück an der Friedrich-Ebert-Straße kann entwickelt werden.

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