Donner
German, noun
Donner is spelled D-O-N-N-E-R (6 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written German, the 15,332nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Donner is a German masculine noun meaning “thunder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, donner is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein krachendes, mahlendes, grollendes oder rollendes Geräusch, das von einem Blitz während eines Gewitters…”.
What does Donner mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinethunder
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ein krachendes, mahlendes, grollendes oder rollendes Geräusch, das von einem Blitz während eines Gewitters erzeugt wird 2. der germanische Gott Donar / Thor
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 Donner
- Donners genitive
- Donnern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Donner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Donner in German?
Donner appears 3.7 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).