Jünger

German, noun

Jünger is spelled J-Ü-N-G-E-R (6 letters) and appears 28 times per million words in written German, the 2,961st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jünger is a German masculine noun meaning “disciple (one who learns from and follows a usually religious or philosophical teacher; male or unspecified sex)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, jünger is a different word: “comparative degree of jung”. On this page, junger is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. Without its umlaut, Junger is a different word: “strong genitive plural of Junges”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “einer der zunächst zwölf Männer, die Schüler und Anhänger von Jesus waren und die später als Apostel das…”.