Ausgewachsen und im Verhalten vernünftig.
Fully grown and behaving in a sensible way.
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Sie ist für ihr Alter sehr reif. — She is very mature for her age.
Der Käse reift sechs Monate. — The cheese matures for six months.
Ist dein Sohn reif genug, um allein zu reisen? — Is your son mature enough to travel alone?
Diese Äpfel werden im Spätherbst reif. — These apples will mature by late autumn.
Wir brauchen eine reife Haltung zu diesem Problem. — We need a mature attitude to this problem.
Wie lange sollte dieser Wein reifen? — How long should this wine mature?
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Download the app for free German vocabulary testReif covers ripe and mature together, where English splits them: fruit is ripe, cheese and people are mature. German uses reif for all three — reifer Käse, reife Früchte, reif für sein Alter — and the fault line simply is not there.
The verb is reifen, and the noun Reife. Die Reifeprüfung is the old name for the school-leaving exam, literally the test of ripeness, which is still the word behind Abitur in official prose.
unreif unripe, immature
Covers both English words as well: green fruit and childish behaviour.
erwachsen grown up
The factual adult. Reif is a judgement about behaviour.
der Reifen tyre, hoop
An unrelated noun that looks like the verb. Reifen wechseln is changing tyres, not ripening.
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