Jahr
German, noun
Jahr is a German neuter noun meaning “year (solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one orbit of the Sun)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, jähr is a different word: “singular imperative of jähren”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “periodischer wiederkehrender Zeitraum, etwa ein Umlauf der Erde um die Sonne, 12 Monate, 365 beziehungsweise…”.
What does Jahr mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuteryear (solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one orbit of the Sun)
Jahr für Jahr
- 2
neuteryear (time it takes for any astronomical object to directly orbit its star)
- 3
neuteryear (period between set dates that mark a year)
Jahr und Tag
- 4
neuteryear (level or grade in school or college)
verb
- 1
singular imperative of jähren
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of jähren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. periodischer wiederkehrender Zeitraum, etwa ein Umlauf der Erde um die Sonne, 12 Monate, 365 beziehungsweise 366 Tage 2. erreichtes Lebensalter, Lebensjahr, durch Zusätze punktuell qualifiziertes Jahr^([1])
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 Jahr
- Jahres genitive
- Jahrs genitive
- Jahre plural
- Jährchen diminutive neuter
- Jährlein diminutive neuter
- Jahren dative definite plural
- J. abbreviation
- Jr. abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Jahr
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Jahr in German?
Jahr appears 692 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).