weiße

Weiße is the feminine singular inflected form of the German adjective weiß, meaning “white.” It appears with feminine singular nouns in the nominative and accusative cases, as in die weiße Blume (the white flower). In other cases and numbers the ending changes according to German declension rules, for example der weißen Blume (dative feminine singular) or die weißen Blumen (nominative plural after a definite article) and weiße Blumen (neutral, without article, plural).

In everyday German, weiße is used to describe color. It also features in compound nouns and in properly capitalized forms when part of a name or title. For example, in the proper noun Weiße Rose (The White Rose), referring to the historical anti-Nazi resistance group, the term appears as part of a fixed name rather than a simple adjective.

Orthography and etymology: weiße derives from the Old High German wîs, related to the broader Germanic root for the color white. It shares cognates with related words in other Germanic languages, such as English white, Dutch wit, and Swedish vit. The current spelling uses the ß after a long vowel or diphthong, so the feminine form is written weiße rather than weisse; older texts sometimes show alternative spellings.

See also: the color white in German (Weiß), grammatical declension of adjectives in German, and examples of white used in German literature and signage.