Hunger
German, noun
Hunger is spelled H-U-N-G-E-R (6 letters) and appears 29 times per million words in written German, the 2,820th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hunger is a German masculine noun meaning “hunger” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, hunger is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Verlangen nach Essen”.
What does Hunger mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehunger
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Verlangen nach Essen 2. dem Verlangen nach Essen vergleichbares Verlangen
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 Hunger
- Hungers genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Hunger
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Hunger in German?
Hunger appears 29 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).