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wage

German, verb

wage is a German verb meaning “first-person singular present” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, wäge is a different word: “first-person singular present”.

What does wage mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present

  2. 2

    first/third-person singular subjunctive I

  3. 3

    singular imperative

verb

as wäge
  1. 1

    first-person singular present

  2. 2

    first/third-person singular subjunctive I

  3. 3

    singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common is wage in German?

wage appears 5.6 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).