neun
German, number
neun is spelled N-E-U-N (4 letters) and appears 52 times per million words in written German, the 1,636th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Neun is a German number meaning “nine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Neun is a different word: “nine”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Kardinalzahl zwischen acht und zehn”.
What does neun mean in English?
number
- 1
nine
noun
- 1
femininenine
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
number: 1. die Kardinalzahl zwischen acht und zehn 2. „neun Uhr“ oder „einundzwanzig Uhr“
noun: 1. die natürliche Zahl zwischen der Acht und der Zehn 2. die Ziffer Neun (9, ٩, 九, 玖) 3. die drittniedrigste Karte beim Skat
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 neun
- Neunen plural
- neune variant
- 9 symbol
- Ⅸ symbol
- ⅸ symbol
- die neun Dinge nominative definite
- neun Dinge nominative indefinite
- der neun Dinge genitive definite
- neuner Dinge genitive indefinite
- den neun Dingen dative definite
- neun Dingen dative indefinite
- meine neun Dinge nominative possessive pronoun
- neun meiner Dinge nominative possessive pronoun
- meiner neun Dinge genitive possessive pronoun
- neuner meiner Dinge genitive possessive pronoun
- meinen neun Dingen dative possessive pronoun
- neunen meiner Dinge dative possessive pronoun
- Neuner nominative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to neun
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is neun in German?
neun appears 52 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).