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Alte

German, noun

Alte is spelled A-L-T-E (4 letters) and appears 170 times per million words in written German, the 507th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alte is a German feminine noun meaning “female equivalent of Alter: old woman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, alte is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “alte Frau”.

What does Alte mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininefemale equivalent of Alter: old woman

noun

  1. 1

    masculinestrong nominative/accusative plural

  2. 2

    masculineweak nominative singular

adjective

as alte
  1. 1

    femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular

  2. 2

    strong nominative/accusative plural

  3. 3

    weak nominative all-gender singular

  4. 4

    feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular

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

How German dictionaries define it

abbreviation: 1. Apparent Life Threatening Event = anscheinend lebensbedrohliches Ereignis (Bezeichnung eines akuten Zustandes bei Neugeborenen oder Säuglingen mit Apnoe, Zyanose oder Blässe, verändertem Muskeltonus sowie Bradykardie)

noun: 1. alte Frau 2. Mutter 3. Ehefrau oder Lebensgefährtin 4. gleichaltrige Frau

noun: 1. letzter Lebensabschnitt eines Menschen

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 Alte

  • die Alte definite nominative
  • Alter genitive
  • der Alten definite genitive
  • die Alten definite plural
  • Alten dative plural strong
  • den Alten dative plural
  • eine Alte nominative singular
  • keine Alten nominative plural
  • einer Alten genitive singular
  • keiner Alten genitive plural
  • keinen Alten dative plural
  • Alter, n variant

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to Alte

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Alte in German?

Alte appears 170 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).

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