bass
German, adjective
bass is spelled B-A-S-S (4 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written German, the 6,291st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bass is a German adjective meaning “great, total, immense; with nouns expressing astonishment etc. (as above)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Bass is a different word: “bass (low spectrum of sound)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “gut im Sinne von sehr”.
What does bass mean in English?
adverb
- 1
greatly, totally, immensely; used with erstaunt (“astonished”) or, less often, other words expressing a sudden reaction/emotion
Ich war bass erstaunt.
- 2
obsoletebetter, more properly, readily
adjective
- 1
raregreat, total, immense; with nouns expressing astonishment etc. (as above)
basses Erstaunen
noun
- 1
masculinebass (low spectrum of sound)
- 2
masculinebass (singer; section of musical group)
- 3
masculinebass, double bass (stringed instrument)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. tiefe Singstimme bei Männern 2. Sänger mit tiefer Singstimme 3. tiefste Stimme des musikalischen Gefüges 4. Musikinstrument
adjective: 1. gut im Sinne von sehr
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 bass
- basser masculine nominative singular
- basse feminine nominative singular
- basses neuter nominative singular
- bassen genitive masculine singular
- bassem dative masculine singular
- der basse definite includes-article masculine
- die basse definite feminine includes-article
- das basse definite includes-article neuter
- die bassen definite includes-article nominative
- des bassen definite genitive includes-article
- der bassen definite feminine genitive
- dem bassen dative definite includes-article
- den bassen dative definite includes-article
- Baß obsolete
- Bässe nominative plural
- Basses genitive singular
- Basse dative singular
- Bässen dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bass
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bass in German?
bass appears 11 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).