Drang
German, noun
Drang is spelled D-R-A-N-G (5 letters) and appears 7.2 times per million words in written German, the 9,162nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Drang is a German masculine noun meaning “pressure; stress” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, drang is a different word: “first/third-person singular preterite of dringen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein schwer beherrschbarer Antrieb, ein heftiges Streben (stärker als „Lust zu etwas“, schwächer als „Trieb“)”.
What does Drang mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepressure; stress
- 2
masculineurge; impulse; longing
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular preterite of dringen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ein schwer beherrschbarer Antrieb, ein heftiges Streben (stärker als „Lust zu etwas“, schwächer als „Trieb“)
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 Drang
- Dranges genitive
- Drangs genitive
- Dränge plural
- Drange dative singular
- Drängen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Drang
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Drang in German?
Drang appears 7.2 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).