Boden
German, noun
Boden is spelled B-O-D-E-N (5 letters) and appears 102 times per million words in written German, the 837th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Boden is a German masculine noun meaning “ground, soil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Böden is a different word: “plural of Boden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Erdoberfläche”.
What does Boden mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineground, soil
heiliger Boden
- 2
masculinesea bottom (typically called Meeresboden)
- 3
masculineany defined type of soil
- 4
masculinefloor
- 5
masculineattic, garret, loft
- 6
colloquialmasculineflooring, floor cover (often used in this sense in compound nouns: Teppichboden, Parkettboden)
noun
- 1
plural of Boden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. die Erdoberfläche 2. die oberste Schicht der Erdkruste 3. unterer Abschluss eines Gefäßes 4. Dachboden
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 Boden
- Bodens genitive
- Böden plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Boden
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Boden in German?
Boden appears 102 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).