Dampf
German, noun
Dampf is spelled D-A-M-P-F (5 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written German, the 10,058th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dampf is a German masculine noun meaning “steam” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, dampf is a different word: “singular imperative of dampfen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Gas, das meist noch in Kontakt mit der flüssigen beziehungsweise festen Phase steht, aus der es…”.
What does Dampf mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesteam
- 2
masculinevapor / vapour
verb
- 1
singular imperative of dampfen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of dampfen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gas, das meist noch in Kontakt mit der flüssigen beziehungsweise festen Phase steht, aus der es hervorgegangen ist 2. Ansammlung feinverteilter Flüssigkeitstropfen in einem Gas 3. große Anstrengung
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 Dampf
- Dampfes genitive
- Dampfs genitive
- Dämpfe plural
- Dampfe dative singular
- Dämpfen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Dampf
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Dampf in German?
Dampf appears 6.5 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).