beige
German, adjective
beige is spelled B-E-I-G-E (5 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written German, the 20,546th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beige is a German adjective meaning “beige” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present of beigen. With a capital, Beige is a different word: “stack, pile”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine hellgelbbraune Farbe (RAL 1001) aufweisend, die der ungefärbter Wolle beziehungsweise der des…”.
What does beige mean in English?
adjective
- 1
beige
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
noun
- 1
Switzerlandfemininestack, pile
noun
- 1
neuterbeige (the color)
- 2
neuterbeige thing
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. eine hellgelbbraune Farbe (RAL 1001) aufweisend, die der ungefärbter Wolle beziehungsweise der des Dünensandes gleicht
noun: 1. heller, gelbbrauner Farbton
noun: 1. übereinanderliegende, häufig gleichartige Gegenstände, aufgeschichteter Haufen beispielsweise von Holz, Papier oder Wäsche
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 beige
- beiger masculine nominative singular
- beiges neuter nominative singular
- beigen genitive masculine singular
- beigem dative masculine singular
- der beige definite includes-article masculine
- die beige definite feminine includes-article
- das beige definite includes-article neuter
- die beigen definite includes-article nominative
- des beigen definite genitive includes-article
- der beigen definite feminine genitive
- dem beigen dative definite includes-article
- den beigen dative definite includes-article
- ein beiger includes-article indefinite masculine
- Beiges nominative plural
- Beigen nominative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to beige
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beige in German?
beige appears 2.5 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).