heim
German, adverb
heim is spelled H-E-I-M (4 letters) and appears 28 times per million words in written German, the 2,961st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Heim is a German adverb meaning “home, to the house; always as a direction, thus never in the sense of at home” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Heim is a different word: “home, one’s dwelling, the place where one is at home”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “nach Hause”.
What does heim mean in English?
adverb
- 1
home, to the house; always as a direction, thus never in the sense of at home
Am Abend komm' ich dann auch gerne wieder heim.
noun
- 1
neuterhome, one’s dwelling, the place where one is at home
- 2
neutera home, asylum, hostel (residence for some specified group)
- 3
neuterwithout further context usually short for either Kinderheim (“children’s home, orphanage”) or Altersheim (“retirement home”)
- 4
neutera house, center for a collective purpose other than to dwell in
suffix
- 1
neuterPlacename suffix: Indicating a place of dwelling; home
prefix
- 1
A separable prefix: home
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Haus oder Wohnung, wo jemand wohnt 2. gewohnte Umgebung, Heimatland, Heimatort 3. geleitete Unterkunft für mehrere Personen aus einem bestimmten Personenkreis, zum Beispiel Senioren oder Kinder 4. Stätte für Erholungssuchende
adverb: 1. nach Hause
prefix: 1. mit Bezug zum Zuhause, dem Heim
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 heim
- Heims genitive
- Heimes genitive
- Heime plural
- Heimen dative definite plural
- H. abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to heim
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is heim in German?
heim appears 28 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).