Dienst
German, noun
Dienst is spelled D-I-E-N-S-T (6 letters) and appears 58 times per million words in written German, the 1,483rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dienst is a German masculine noun meaning “service” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, dienst is a different word: “second-person singular present of dienen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “das Arbeitsverhältnis, die regelmäßige bezahlte Arbeit, die Amtspflichten”.
What does Dienst mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineservice
ausgezeichneter Dienst
- 2
masculinework, duty
verb
- 1
second-person singular present of dienen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. das Arbeitsverhältnis, die regelmäßige bezahlte Arbeit, die Amtspflichten 2. das Dienen, für etwas Gutes, für die Allgemeinheit 3. der Betrieb, das Funktionieren 4. die Hilfe, der Beistand
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 Dienst
- Dienstes genitive
- Diensts genitive
- Dienste plural
- Diensten dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Dienst
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Dienst in German?
Dienst appears 58 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).