#How do you call a female friend in German?

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dreamy holly
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Hi! You can say "Sie ist eine Freundin von mir". That implies that she's just a friend!

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It's specifically "meine Freundin" that has the romantic connotations

next abyss
dreamy holly
keen cobalt
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Saying meine Freundin does not necessarily imply a romantic relationship. The words Freund and Freundin are ambiguous in German and can mean both things. It really just depends on the context

dreamy holly
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Based on my experience, it's better to go for "eine" version to lose the ambiguity, whenever I say "mein Freund" people always assume I mean a boyfriend 🤡

tepid gate
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there are several ways to make it clear, one way is to use adjectives:

meine feste Freundin> romantic
meine gute/enge/beste Freundin > friendship

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then there is the word: Bekannte, which u use for people who you know but aren't your friend (yet), and for natives that will include people you might know for years and even spent time with, but they still might be just a Bekannter

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there's no set timeframe or whatever after which someone moves from being a Bekannter to being a Freund, that differs from person to person.
my point is that you can use this word to differentiate between romantic and friendship