Like
German, noun
Like is spelled L-I-K-E (4 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written German, the 4,267th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Like is a German masculine noun meaning “like (individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, like is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “positive Rückmeldung zu einer Nachricht in einem sozialen Netzwerk mit der Bedeutung: das gefällt mir!”.
What does Like mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineneuterlike (individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. positive Rückmeldung zu einer Nachricht in einem sozialen Netzwerk mit der Bedeutung: das gefällt mir!
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 Like
- Likes genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Like
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Like in German?
Like appears 18 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).