Anklage
German, noun
Anklage is spelled A-N-K-L-A-G-E (7 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written German, the 5,583rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anklage is a German feminine noun meaning “charge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, anklage is a different word: “first-person singular dependent present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Antrag auf Strafverfolgung”.
What does Anklage mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecharge
- 2
feminineaccusation
verb
- 1
first-person singular dependent present
- 2
first/third-person singular dependent subjunctive I
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Antrag auf Strafverfolgung 2. Beschuldigung einer Person, etwas Schlimmes getan zu haben
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 Anklage
- Anklagen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Anklage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Anklage in German?
Anklage 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).