morgen
German, adverb
morgen is spelled M-O-R-G-E-N (6 letters) and appears 269 times per million words in written German, the 333rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Morgen is a German adverb meaning “tomorrow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Morgen is a different word: “morning (part of the day from dawn to noon)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “am Tag nach dem heutigen Tag; am folgenden, kommenden Tag”.
What does morgen mean in English?
adverb
- 1
tomorrow
morgen früh
noun
- 1
masculinemorning (part of the day from dawn to noon)
- 2
datedmasculinemorgen (measure of land equivalent to two acres); (informal) acre (when speaking vaguely), a quarter of a hectare (specific)
- 3
archaicmasculineeast (direction of the rising sun at an equinox)
noun
- 1
neutertomorrow (the day after today)
- 2
neuterthe future
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tageszeit zwischen Nacht und Vormittag 2. Osten 3. historisches Flächenmaß, variierte je nach Zeitabschnitt und Landstrich in seiner Größe 4. die morgendliche Begrüßung „Guten Morgen!“
noun: 1. das Zukünftige, Morgige
adverb: 1. am Tag nach dem heutigen Tag; am folgenden, kommenden Tag 2. in zukünftiger Zeit
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 morgen
- Morgens genitive
- Morgende colloquial plural
- Morgenden colloquial dative definite
- morgn alternative
- Mrg. abbreviation
- A abbreviation
- Acre abbreviation
- Flächeneinheit abbreviation
- USA abbreviation
- Großbritannien abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to morgen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is morgen in German?
morgen appears 269 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).