The older term "Fräulein" is only used to young girls.
The term "Ms." is a way of referring to a woman without specifying her marital status.
In modern German, "Frau" does the same thing.
The German word for Ma'am would be "gnädige Frau", but it`s outdated in Germany, if it`s used at all, then mostly ironically. Actually there isn`t a modern equivalent to "Ma'am" or "Sir" in the German language.
Pronounce ma'am as a German would, or pronounce the German word for it?
The German word is 'Frau'. It is pronounced [fr-ow], with a rolling 'r' from the front of the mouth and the 'ow'-sound found in 'owl' and 'kapow'.
lady or ma'am translates as Meine Dame or gnädige Frau
Guten Morgen meine Dame
Ja, meine Dame
Frau
yes sir/maam
yes maam
hello madam how was your day bonjour Madame allait comment votre jour ?
yes and no = jein
yes sir//maam -Krista
The language spoken in Austria is German. "Yes" in German is "ja" (pronounced "ya").
ja
In general it can. Ma'am and Mam in this case are contractions of the honorific word madam
yes maam or sir he does
maam
maam
I'm a women and personaly I love it when a guy says maam to me. However there are a group of women who are usualywho want to be younger and calling them maam sometime offends them because it can be a sign of old age, like they think only the old people get called maam. But for the most part when you call a women maam they think how polite and thoughtfull, so go a head and use it, you'll get more happiness then ridicule.