jung
German, adjective
jung is spelled J-U-N-G (4 letters) and appears 50 times per million words in written German, the 1,705th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jung is a German adjective meaning “young” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Jung is a different word: “alternative form of Junge (“boy, guy”)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “niedrigen Alters”.
What does jung mean in English?
adjective
- 1
young
Der Junge ist jung.
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinealternative form of Junge (“boy, guy”)
interjection
- 1
colloquialman! come on!
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. niedrigen Alters 2. in einem frühen Entwicklungsstadium befindlich 3. zu einer späteren Zeit gehörig (meist Superlativ)
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 jung
- junger masculine nominative singular
- jünger comparative
- am jüngsten superlative
- junge feminine nominative singular
- junges neuter nominative singular
- jungen genitive masculine singular
- jungem dative masculine singular
- der junge definite includes-article masculine
- die junge definite feminine includes-article
- das junge definite includes-article neuter
- die jungen definite includes-article nominative
- des jungen definite genitive includes-article
- der jungen definite feminine genitive
- dem jungen dative definite includes-article
- jungsch variant colloquial
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to jung
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is jung in German?
jung appears 50 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).