Glaube
German, noun
Glaube is spelled G-L-A-U-B-E (6 letters) and appears 245 times per million words in written German, the 360th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glaube is a German masculine noun meaning “belief, faith” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, glaube is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “religiöses Bekenntnis”.
What does Glaube mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebelief, faith
Keine Kultur oder Zivilisation ohne Glauben an Götter.
- 2
masculinefaith, creed
der jüdische Glaube
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
- 3
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. religiöses Bekenntnis 2. sicheres Dafürhalten; unbewiesene Überzeugung
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 Glaube
- Glaubens genitive
- Glauben plural rare
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Glaube
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Glaube in German?
Glaube appears 245 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).