Bürste
German, noun
Bürste is spelled B-Ü-R-S-T-E (6 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written German, the 28,576th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bürste is a German feminine noun meaning “brush” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, bürste is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “aus einem Stiel oder Griff und befestigten Borsten bestehender Gegenstand”.
What does Bürste mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebrush
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aus einem Stiel oder Griff und befestigten Borsten bestehender Gegenstand 2. Gleitkontakt aus Graphit in Motoren und Generatoren 3. kurzer Haarschnitt
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 Bürste
- Bürsten plural
- Bürstchen diminutive neuter
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Bürste
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Bürste in German?
Bürste appears 1.6 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).