danke
German, interjection
danke is spelled D-A-N-K-E (5 letters) and appears 437 times per million words in written German, the 215th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Danke is a German interjection meaning “thanks, thank you” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present of danken. With a capital, Danke is a different word: “dative singular of Dank”.
What does danke mean in English?
interjection
- 1
thanks, thank you
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
noun
- 1
masculinedative singular of Dank
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
particle: 1. Wort, das man benutzt, um seinen Dank auszudrücken 2. Wort, das man benutzt, um kurz zuzustimmen oder abzulehnen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to danke
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is danke in German?
danke appears 437 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).