Empfang
German, noun
Empfang is spelled E-M-P-F-A-N-G (7 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written German, the 4,267th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empfang is a German masculine noun meaning “receipt, acceptance, welcome (act of receiving someone or something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, empfang is a different word: “singular imperative of empfangen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “das Empfangen einer Übertragung (zum Beispiel Rundfunk, Funk, Handy, …)”.
What does Empfang mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinereceipt, acceptance, welcome (act of receiving someone or something)
- 2
masculinereception (social event)
- 3
masculinereception, front desk (area where people are received)
- 4
masculinereception, signal (ability to receive radio signals)
verb
- 1
singular imperative of empfangen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. das Empfangen einer Übertragung (zum Beispiel Rundfunk, Funk, Handy, …) 2. Begrüßung (zum Beispiel von Gästen, Mitarbeitern, Freunden und Ähnlichen) 3. ein Fest zur Begrüßung von Gästen 4. eine Rezeption in einer Empfangshalle
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 Empfang
- Empfangs genitive
- Empfanges genitive
- Empfänge plural
- Empfange dative singular
- Empfängen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Empfang
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Empfang in German?
Empfang appears 18 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).