arg
German, adjective
arg is a German adjective meaning “bad” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Arg is a different word: “malice, wickedness, falsehood, deceit”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “böse, schlimm”.
What does arg mean in English?
adjective
- 1
bad
im Argen liegen
- 2
intense
- 3
wicked
- 4
disgusting
noun
- 1
datedneutermalice, wickedness, falsehood, deceit
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. böse, schlimm 2. sehr, heftig, stark
abbreviation: 1. argentinisch 2. argumentum
noun: 1. Bosheit, Böswilligkeit, Falschheit, Trug
abbreviation: 1. Abkürzung für Arginin, eine Aminosäure
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of arg
- arger masculine nominative singular
- ärger comparative
- am ärgsten superlative
- arge feminine nominative singular
- arges neuter nominative singular
- argen genitive masculine singular
- argem dative masculine singular
- der arge definite includes-article masculine
- die arge definite feminine includes-article
- das arge definite includes-article neuter
- die argen definite includes-article nominative
- des argen definite genitive includes-article
- der argen definite feminine genitive
- dem argen dative definite includes-article
- Args genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to arg
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arg in German?
arg appears 7.4 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).