Güte
German, noun
Güte is spelled G-Ü-T-E (4 letters) and appears 407 times per million words in written German, the 227th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Güte is a German feminine noun meaning “kindness, clemency” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its umlaut, Gute is a different word: “nominalization of gut”. On this page, gute is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine freundliche, wohlgesonnene, großzügige Einstellung und Handlungsweise gegenüber einer anderen Person”.
What does Güte mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininekindness, clemency
- 2
femininequality
ein Spektakel allererster Güte
noun
- 1
femininenominalization of gut
adjective
- 1
femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- 2
strong nominative/accusative plural
- 3
weak nominative all-gender singular
- 4
feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. eine freundliche, wohlgesonnene, großzügige Einstellung und Handlungsweise gegenüber einer anderen Person 2. der Grad der erwünschten und beabsichtigten Beschaffenheit (= Qualität) eines Materials oder eines Instruments
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 Güte
- die Gute definite nominative
- Guter genitive
- der Guten definite genitive
- die Guten definite plural
- Gutes neuter
- Guten dative plural strong
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Güte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Güte in German?
Güte appears 407 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).