Downer
German, noun
Downer is spelled D-O-W-N-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 144,446th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Downer is a German masculine noun meaning “downer (drug)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, downer is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Rauschmittel, das den Konsumenten beruhigt, träge und müde macht”.
What does Downer mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineslangdowner (drug)
adjective
- 1
masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular
- 3
strong genitive plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Rauschmittel, das den Konsumenten beruhigt, träge und müde macht
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 Downer
- Downers genitive
- Downern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Downer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Downer in German?
Downer appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).