cool
German, adjective/kuːl/
cool is spelled C-O-O-L (4 letters) and appears 62 times per million words in written German, the 1,391st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cool is a German adjective meaning “cool (in its informal senses)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich einer ruhigen, beherrschten Aktion oder Art entsprechend verhaltend”.
What does cool mean in English?
adjective
- 1
colloquialcool (in its informal senses)
Die Musik war echt cool.
- 2
colloquialcool, calm, easy-going
Als Trainer muss mann ziemlich cool sein.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. sich einer ruhigen, beherrschten Aktion oder Art entsprechend verhaltend 2. sehr positiv, gut, der Idealvorstellung entsprechend
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 cool
- cooler masculine nominative singular
- am coolsten superlative
- coole feminine nominative singular
- cooles neuter nominative singular
- coolen genitive masculine singular
- coolem dative masculine singular
- der coole definite includes-article masculine
- die coole definite feminine includes-article
- das coole definite includes-article neuter
- die coolen definite includes-article nominative
- des coolen definite genitive includes-article
- der coolen definite feminine genitive
- dem coolen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cool?
- /kuːl/
- [kuːl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cool
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cool in German?
cool appears 62 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).