Gulden
German, noun
Gulden is spelled G-U-L-D-E-N (6 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written German, the 12,890th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gulden is a German masculine noun meaning “guilder (currency of the Netherlands until 2001)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, gülden is a different word: “alternative form of golden (“golden”)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “früher verbreitete Goldmünze beziehungsweise Silbermünze in Deutschland und anderen europäischen Ländern”.
What does Gulden mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineguilder (currency of the Netherlands until 2001)
- 2
masculineflorin; guilder (mediaeval and early modern coin)
adjective
- 1
alternative form of golden (“golden”)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. in der Farbe von Gold
noun: 1. früher verbreitete Goldmünze beziehungsweise Silbermünze in Deutschland und anderen europäischen Ländern 2. frühere Währungseinheit in den Niederlanden bis zur Einführung des Euro (siehe niederländischer Gulden) 3. Währungseinheit auf den Niederländischen Antillen (siehe Niederländische-Antillen-Gulden) 4. Währungseinheit auf Aruba (siehe Aruba-Gulden)
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 Gulden
- güldener comparative
- am güldensten superlative
- güldene feminine nominative singular
- güldenes neuter nominative singular
- güldenen genitive masculine singular
- güldenem dative masculine singular
- der güldene definite includes-article masculine
- die güldene definite feminine includes-article
- das güldene definite includes-article neuter
- die güldenen definite includes-article nominative
- des güldenen definite genitive includes-article
- der güldenen definite feminine genitive
- dem güldenen dative definite includes-article
- den güldenen dative definite includes-article
- ƒ abbreviation
- fl. abbreviation
- Guldens genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Gulden
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Gulden in German?
Gulden appears 4.7 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).