Affe
German, noun
Affe is spelled A-F-F-E (4 letters) and appears 5.1 times per million words in written German, the 12,050th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Affe is a German masculine noun meaning “monkey or ape (male or female or of unspecified sex)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, äffe is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Säugetier aus der Unterordnung Anthropoidea in der Ordnung der Primaten”.
What does Affe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemonkey or ape (male or female or of unspecified sex)
- 2
masculineellipsis of Fellaffe, a kind of furry military knapsack
- 3
masculineslangdrunkenness, alcohol intoxication
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Säugetier aus der Unterordnung Anthropoidea in der Ordnung der Primaten 2. eitler, affektierter Mensch 3. roher, primitiver, ungeschlachter Mann 4. ein junges Murmeltier
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 Affe
- Affen genitive
- Äffchen diminutive neuter
- Äfflein diminutive neuter
- Afferl diminutive neuter
- Äffin feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Affe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Affe in German?
Affe appears 5.1 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).