kühl
German, adjective/kyːl/
kühl is spelled K-Ü-H-L (4 letters) and appears 8.5 times per million words in written German, the 8,046th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kühl is a German adjective meaning “cool” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “von geringer, meist gefühlter Temperatur”.
What does kühl mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cool
etwas kühl lagern
- 2
calm, restrained, passionless
- 3
cool, frigid
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. von geringer, meist gefühlter Temperatur 2. gefühlsarm, unbeteiligt, gelassen, sexuell wenig oder nicht erregbar 3. unbeteiligt, abwartend, zurückhaltend
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 kühl
- kühler masculine nominative singular
- am kühlsten superlative
- kühle feminine nominative singular
- kühles neuter nominative singular
- kühlen genitive masculine singular
- kühlem dative masculine singular
- der kühle definite includes-article masculine
- die kühle definite feminine includes-article
- das kühle definite includes-article neuter
- die kühlen definite includes-article nominative
- des kühlen definite genitive includes-article
- der kühlen definite feminine genitive
- dem kühlen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kühl?
- /kyːl/
- [kyːl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to kühl
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kühl in German?
kühl appears 8.5 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).