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fünf

German, number

fünf is spelled F-Ü-N-F (4 letters) and appears 195 times per million words in written German, the 443rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fünf is a German number meaning “five (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 5; or describing a set with five elements)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Fünf is a different word: “five”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “fünf, die Kardinalzahl zwischen vier und sechs”.

What does fünf mean in English?

number

  1. 1

    five (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 5; or describing a set with five elements)

noun

as Fünf
  1. 1

    femininefive

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

How German dictionaries define it

number: 1. fünf, die Kardinalzahl zwischen vier und sechs 2. „fünf Uhr“ oder „siebzehn Uhr“ 3. „fünf Jahre (alt)“

noun: 1. die natürliche Zahl zwischen der Vier und der Sechs 2. die Ziffer Fünf (5, ٥, V (Ⅴ), 五, 伍) 3. „mangelhaft“, an Schulen die zweitschlechteste, an Hochschulen die schlechteste Note 4. fünf Augen auf einem Würfel

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 fünf

  • fünff alternative obsolete
  • Fünfen plural
  • fünfe variant
  • 5 symbol
  • Ⅴ symbol
  • die fünf Dinge nominative definite
  • fünf Dinge nominative indefinite
  • der fünf Dinge genitive definite
  • fünfer Dinge genitive indefinite
  • den fünf Dingen dative definite
  • fünf Dingen dative indefinite
  • meine fünf Dinge nominative possessive pronoun
  • fünf meiner Dinge nominative possessive pronoun
  • meiner fünf Dinge genitive possessive pronoun
  • fünfer meiner Dinge genitive possessive pronoun
  • meinen fünf Dingen dative possessive pronoun
  • fünfen meiner Dinge dative possessive pronoun
  • die fünf nominative

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

English words that translate to fünf

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

How common is fünf in German?

fünf appears 195 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).

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