Alarm
German, noun/aˈlaʁm/
Alarm is spelled A-L-A-R-M (5 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written German, the 5,816th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alarm is a German masculine noun meaning “alert, alarm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “zur Frühwarnung oder bei Eintritt eines Schadensereignisses erfolgender Ruf zur Bereitschaft oder zur Warnung…”.
What does Alarm mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealert, alarm
einen Alarm auslösen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. zur Frühwarnung oder bei Eintritt eines Schadensereignisses erfolgender Ruf zur Bereitschaft oder zur Warnung vor Gefahr 2. allgemeines Warnsignal oder ein Signal zum Beispiel als Weckruf
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 Alarm
- Alarms genitive
- Alarme plural
- Alarmen dative definite plural
- Alarmes genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Alarm?
- /aˈlaʁm/
- [aˈlaɐ̯m]
- [aˈlaʁm]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Alarm
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Alarm in German?
Alarm appears 13 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).