heute
German, adverb
heute is spelled H-E-U-T-E (5 letters) and appears 759 times per million words in written German, the 129th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Heute is a German adverb meaning “today” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Heute is a different word: “today”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “an diesem Tage”.
What does heute mean in English?
adverb
- 1
today
Heute ist Montag
noun
- 1
neutertoday
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gegenwart, die heutige Zeit (Zeit in der wir leben)
adverb: 1. an diesem Tage 2. in der gegenwärtigen Zeit
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 heute
- heut alternative colloquial poetic
- heut' alternative
- haid alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to heute
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is heute in German?
heute appears 759 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).