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fünfte

German, adjective/fʏnftə/

fünfte is spelled F-Ü-N-F-T-E (6 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written German, the 6,059th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fünfte is a German adjective meaning “fifth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does fünfte mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    fifth

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

How German dictionaries define it

number: 1. nach dem beziehungsweise der vierten kommend; dem, der beziehungsweise des sechsten vorausgehend

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 fünfte

  • fünfter masculine nominative singular
  • fünftes neuter nominative singular
  • fünften genitive masculine singular
  • fünftem dative masculine singular
  • der fünfte definite includes-article masculine
  • die fünfte definite feminine includes-article
  • das fünfte definite includes-article neuter
  • die fünften definite includes-article nominative
  • des fünften definite genitive includes-article
  • der fünften definite feminine genitive
  • dem fünften dative definite includes-article
  • den fünften dative definite includes-article
  • ein fünfter includes-article indefinite masculine
  • 5. abbreviation

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

How do you pronounce fünfte?

  • /fʏnftə/
  • [ˈfʏnftə]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to fünfte

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

How common is fünfte in German?

fünfte appears 12 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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