Bote
German, noun
Bote is spelled B-O-T-E (4 letters) and appears 4.5 times per million words in written German, the 13,339th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bote is a German masculine noun meaning “messenger (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, böte is a different word: “first/third-person singular subjunctive II of bieten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person, die etwas überbringt, zum Beispiel eine Nachricht, Laufbursche einer Firma”.
What does Bote mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemessenger (male or of unspecified gender)
- 2
masculinepostman, letter carrier
- 3
masculineapostle
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular subjunctive II of bieten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Person, die etwas überbringt, zum Beispiel eine Nachricht, Laufbursche einer Firma 2. erstes Anzeichen für etwas
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 Bote
- Boten genitive
- Botin feminine
- Bothe obsolete
- Botenfrau feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Bote
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Bote in German?
Bote appears 4.5 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).