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gut

German, adjective

gut is spelled G-U-T (3 letters) and appears 1,230 times per million words in written German, the 92nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gut is a German adjective meaning “good (acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Gut is a different word: “commodity, property, possession, good”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “vom Menschen her positiv bewertet, empfunden, gefühlt und dergleichen”.

What does gut mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    good (acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral)

    Wir müssen gut sein, um uns gut zu fühlen.

  2. 2

    good (effective; useful)

    ein guter Plan

  3. 3

    good (fortunate)

    Der hat's gut.

  4. 4

    good (having a particularly pleasant taste)

    Mmmh, das schmeckt gut.

  5. 5

    all right, fair, proper (satisfactory)

    Ist schon gut.

  6. 6

    good (full; entire; at least as much as)

    Eine gute Stunde

adverb

  1. 1

    well (accurately, competently, satisfactorily)

    Die Mannschaft hat gut gespielt.

  2. 2

    a little more than (with measurements)

    Ich wohne seit gut zwanzig Jahren in Berlin.

  3. 3

    easily, likely

    Dieser Gegenstand ist gut zu finden.

interjection

  1. 1

    okay, all right, now then

    Gut, dann fangen wir mal an.

noun

as Gut
  1. 1

    neutercommodity, property, possession, good

  2. 2

    neutera large farmstead, estate related to agriculture

noun

as Gut
  1. 1

    neuterbeing of an academic grade evidencing performance well above the average requirements, B

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. vom Menschen her positiv bewertet, empfunden, gefühlt und dergleichen 2. prädikativ oder attributiv gebraucht 3. adverbiell gebraucht 4. eine Schulnote

noun: 1. Besitz, Eigentum 2. Ländereien mit Wohn- und Nutzgebäuden, größerer Hof 3. etwas von Wert, auch als Mittel der Bedürfnisbefriedigung 4. Tauwerk bei Segelschiffen

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 gut

  • guter masculine nominative singular
  • besser comparative
  • am besten superlative
  • gute feminine nominative singular
  • gutes neuter nominative singular
  • guten genitive masculine singular
  • gutem dative masculine singular
  • der gute definite includes-article masculine
  • die gute definite feminine includes-article
  • das gute definite includes-article neuter
  • die guten definite includes-article nominative
  • des guten definite genitive includes-article
  • der guten definite feminine genitive
  • dem guten dative definite includes-article
  • Güter nominative plural
  • Guts genitive singular
  • Gutes genitive singular
  • Gute dative singular

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to gut

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is gut in German?

gut appears 1,230 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).

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