human
German, adjective/huˈmaːn/
human is spelled H-U-M-A-N (5 letters) and appears 8.3 times per million words in written German, the 8,191st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Human is a German adjective meaning “humane” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “menschlich, zum Menschen gehörend”.
What does human mean in English?
adjective
- 1
humane
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. menschlich, zum Menschen gehörend 2. die Menschenwürde wahrend 3. wenig streng, wenig unangenehm, gut zu meistern
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 human
- humaner masculine nominative singular
- am humansten superlative
- humane feminine nominative singular
- humanes neuter nominative singular
- humanen genitive masculine singular
- humanem dative masculine singular
- der humane definite includes-article masculine
- die humane definite feminine includes-article
- das humane definite includes-article neuter
- die humanen definite includes-article nominative
- des humanen definite genitive includes-article
- der humanen definite feminine genitive
- dem humanen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce human?
- /huˈmaːn/
- [huˈmaːn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to human
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is human in German?
human appears 8.3 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).