Genüge
German, noun
Genüge is spelled G-E-N-Ü-G-E (6 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written German, the 15,856th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Genüge is a German feminine noun meaning “sufficiency; a sufficient amount” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, genüge is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “hinreichende Menge, hinreichendes Maß”.
What does Genüge mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineneutersufficiency; a sufficient amount
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. hinreichende Menge, hinreichendes Maß 2. Leistung als Ausgleich für ein zugefügtes Unrecht 3. innere Befriedigung 4. dasjenige, was einem Lust, Vergnügen bereitet
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 Genüge
- Genüges genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Genüge in German?
Genüge appears 3.5 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).