Golf
German, noun
Golf is spelled G-O-L-F (4 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written German, the 3,720th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Golf is a German masculine noun meaning “bay, gulf” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, golf is a different word: “singular imperative of golfen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “großer Einschnitt des Meeres ins Festland, Bucht”.
What does Golf mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebay, gulf
noun
- 1
neutergolf
noun
- 1
masculineVolkswagen Golf, the most popular car in Germany throughout the 1980s and 1990s
verb
- 1
singular imperative of golfen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of golfen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. großer Einschnitt des Meeres ins Festland, Bucht 2. verschiedene Automodelle der Volkswagen AG
noun: 1. ein Ballspiel auf Rasen, Schlag- und Zielspiel, bei dem es Ziel ist, den Golfball mit einem Schläger auf abgegrenzten Bahnen oder Spielfeldern mit verschiedenen Hindernissen durch möglichst wenig Schläge ins Zielloch zu schlagen
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 Golf
- Golfes genitive
- Golfs genitive
- Golfe plural
- Golfen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Golf
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Golf in German?
Golf appears 21 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).