Grundwasser
German, noun
Grundwasser is spelled G-R-U-N-D-W-A-S-S-E-R (11 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written German, the 15,594th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grundwasser is a German neuter noun meaning “groundwater (water existing beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Grundwässer is a different word: “nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Grundwasser”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “nach DIN 4049 definiert als „unterirdisches Wasser, das die Hohlräume der Erdrinde zusammenhängend ausfüllt…”.
What does Grundwasser mean in English?
noun
- 1
neutergroundwater (water existing beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers)
noun
- 1
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Grundwasser
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. nach DIN 4049 definiert als „unterirdisches Wasser, das die Hohlräume der Erdrinde zusammenhängend ausfüllt und dessen Bewegung ausschließlich oder nahezu ausschließlich von der Schwerkraft und den durch die Bewegung selbst ausgelösten Reibungskräften bestimmt wird“
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 Grundwasser
- Grundwassers genitive
- Grundwässer plural
- Grundwassern dative definite plural
- Grundwässern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Grundwasser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Grundwasser in German?
Grundwasser appears 3.6 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).