Denke
German, noun
Denke is spelled D-E-N-K-E (5 letters) and appears 178 times per million words in written German, the 478th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Denke is a German feminine noun meaning “way of thinking, mindset, mentality, attitude” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, denke is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine bestimmte Geisteshaltung”.
What does Denke mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialfeminineway of thinking, mindset, mentality, attitude
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. eine bestimmte Geisteshaltung
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 Denke
- Denken plural uncommon
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Denke in German?
Denke appears 178 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).