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Dir

German, pronoun

Dir is a German pronoun meaning “alternative letter-case form of dir” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, dir is a different word: “dative of du; you, to you”.

What does Dir mean in English?

pronoun

  1. 1

    alternative letter-case form of dir

pronoun

as dir
  1. 1

    dative of du; you, to you.

  2. 2

    dative of du; yourself, to yourself.

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

abbreviation: 1. Direktor

pronoun: 1. Personalpronomen 2. Person Singular Dativ

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 Dir

  • Dir alternative
  • du nominative singular
  • ihr nominative plural
  • deiner genitive singular
  • euer genitive plural
  • euch dative plural
  • dich accusative singular

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to Dir

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Dir in German?

Dir appears 912 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).