grob
German, adjective/ɡʁoːp/
grob is spelled G-R-O-B (4 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written German, the 5,816th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grob is a German adjective meaning “coarse, rough” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “unfein, unbehauen, unbearbeitet, unrein von Stoffen, Oberflächen und Material, ungenau, unscharf”.
What does grob mean in English?
adjective
- 1
coarse, rough
- 2
uncouth, rude, crude, ill-defined
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. unfein, unbehauen, unbearbeitet, unrein von Stoffen, Oberflächen und Material, ungenau, unscharf 2. nicht ganz genau, präzise 3. ungelenk, ungeschickt, unerzogen, ungebildet, bäurisch, gewalttätig 4. im hohen Maße
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 grob
- grober masculine nominative singular
- gröber comparative
- am gröbsten superlative
- grobe feminine nominative singular
- grobes neuter nominative singular
- groben genitive masculine singular
- grobem dative masculine singular
- der grobe definite includes-article masculine
- die grobe definite feminine includes-article
- das grobe definite includes-article neuter
- die groben definite includes-article nominative
- des groben definite genitive includes-article
- der groben definite feminine genitive
- dem groben dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grob?
- standard /ɡʁoːp/
- /ɡʁɔp/
- [ɡʁoːp]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to grob
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grob in German?
grob appears 13 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).