bang
German, adjective/baŋ/
bang is spelled B-A-N-G (4 letters) and appears 6.3 times per million words in written German, the 10,247th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bang is a German adjective meaning “scared, frightened, afraid, fearful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit Angst und/oder Sorge erfüllt”.
What does bang mean in English?
adjective
- 1
scared, frightened, afraid, fearful
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. mit Angst und/oder Sorge erfüllt
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 bang
- banger masculine nominative singular
- bänger comparative
- am bangsten superlative
- am bängsten superlative
- bange feminine nominative singular
- banges neuter nominative singular
- bangen genitive masculine singular
- bangem dative masculine singular
- der bange definite includes-article masculine
- die bange definite feminine includes-article
- das bange definite includes-article neuter
- die bangen definite includes-article nominative
- des bangen definite genitive includes-article
- der bangen definite feminine genitive
- dem bangen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bang?
- /baŋ/
- [baŋ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bang
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bang in German?
bang appears 6.3 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).