# real

real is a German adjective meaning “real”. Forms: realer, am realsten.

## Forms

- Comparative: realer
- Superlative: am realsten

## In other languages

- Русский: реальный, настоящий, действительный

## Meanings

1. real (that has physical existence)
   - real existierender Sozialismus — real socialism
2. real, realistic (pertaining to reality)
   - Diese Geschichte ist nicht real. — This story is not real.
3. real-world, practical, particularly (now chiefly archaic) concerned with actual things as opposed to words or ideas
   - Realschule — real school, school
4. real (not nominal), measured in purchasing power
   - reales Einkommen — real income
5. natural
   - Diese Geschichte ist nicht real.

## Examples

- Das ist eine reale Person. — That's a real person.
- Wie können Spiegel real sein, wenn unsere Augen nicht real sind? — How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?
- Kann eine so merkwürdige Sache real sein? — Can such a strange thing be real?
- Alles, was man sich vorstellen kann, ist real. — Everything you can imagine is real.
- Das ist die reale Welt. — This is the real world.

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Sources: Meanings and forms from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).
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