dies
German, pronoun
dies is spelled D-I-E-S (4 letters) and appears 417 times per million words in written German, the 222nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dies is a German pronoun meaning “alternative form of dieses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, dies. is a different word: “abbreviation of dieselbe”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “adverbialer Gebrauch, um ein ganz bestimmtes, nahe liegendes Nomen hervorzuheben”.
What does dies mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
alternative form of dieses
pronoun
- 1
abbreviation of dieselbe
- 2
abbreviation of dieselben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. adverbialer Gebrauch, um ein ganz bestimmtes, nahe liegendes Nomen hervorzuheben
abbreviation: 1. dieselbe
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 dies
- dis alternative obsolete
- diess alternative obsolete
- dieß alternative obsolete
- diß alternative obsolete
- dieser nominative singular masculine
- diese nominative singular feminine
- dieses nominative singular neuter
- diesem dative singular masculine
- diesen dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is dies in German?
dies appears 417 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).