ich
German, pronoun
ich is spelled I-C-H (3 letters) and appears 12,023 times per million words in written German, the 6th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ich is a German pronoun meaning “I (first person singular nominative (subject) pronoun)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ich is a different word: “ego”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “bezeichnet die eigene Person; 1. Person Singular”.
What does ich mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
I (first person singular nominative (subject) pronoun)
Morgen gehe ich zur Schule.
noun
- 1
neuterego
- 2
neuterself, me, him, etc.
suffix
- 1
Placename suffix found in the Rhineland.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. bezeichnet die eigene Person; 1. Person Singular
noun: 1. Plural selten 2. der Geist einer Person, der sich selbst wahrnimmt 3. der Teil der Persönlichkeit, der zwischen Es, Über-Ich und Umwelt vermittelt
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 ich
- du error-unrecognized-form nominative personal
- er masculine nominative personal
- sie feminine nominative personal
- es neuter nominative personal
- wir first-person nominative personal
- ihr error-unrecognized-form nominative personal
- Sie error-unrecognized-form nominative personal
- Ihr error-unrecognized-form nominative personal
- meiner first-person genitive personal
- mein first-person genitive personal
- deiner error-unrecognized-form genitive personal
- dein error-unrecognized-form genitive personal
- seiner genitive masculine personal
- sein genitive masculine personal
- ihrer feminine genitive personal
- unser first-person genitive personal
- euer error-unrecognized-form genitive personal
- Ihrer error-unrecognized-form genitive personal
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ich
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ich in German?
ich appears 12,023 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).