Lunch
German, noun/lanʃ/
Lunch is spelled L-U-N-C-H (5 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written German, the 26,348th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lunch is a German masculine noun meaning “an English-style morning to midday meal in some cases, but in others only a midday meal, generally smaller than the German-style Mittagessen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “kleinere, leichte Mittagsmahlzeit”.
What does Lunch mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinean English-style morning to midday meal in some cases, but in others only a midday meal, generally smaller than the German-style Mittagessen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. kleinere, leichte Mittagsmahlzeit
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 Lunch
- Lunches genitive
- Lunchs genitive
- Lunche plural
- Lunchen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Lunch?
- /lanʃ/
- /lant͡ʃ/
- [lanʃ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Lunch
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Lunch in German?
Lunch appears 1.8 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).