normal
German, adjective
normal is spelled N-O-R-M-A-L (6 letters) and appears 59 times per million words in written German, the 1,461st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Normal is a German adjective meaning “ordinary, normal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Normal is a different word: “standard, normal”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “vorhandenen (gesellschaftlichen, wissenschaftlichen, medizinischen, subjektiv erfahrenen) Normen entsprechend”.
What does normal mean in English?
adjective
- 1
ordinary, normal
völlig normal.
adverb
- 1
ordinarily, normally, in a normal fashion
Er hat sich ganz normal benommen.
- 2
colloquialalternative form of normalerweise: usually, normally, in general
Normal geh ich früh ins Bett.
interjection
- 1
colloquialsure, of course, obviously; usually implies that something is trivial
Du hast mit zwölf schon geraucht? ― Normal.
noun
- 1
neuterstandard, normal
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. vorhandenen (gesellschaftlichen, wissenschaftlichen, medizinischen, subjektiv erfahrenen) Normen entsprechend 2. über längere Zeiträume ähnlich ablaufenden Ereignissen entsprechend; normalerweise 3. im rechten Winkel/orthogonal
noun: 1. Maß oder Maßstab zur Eichung und Kontrolle anderer Maße oder Maßstäbe 2. Normalbenzin
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 normal
- normaler masculine nominative singular
- am normalsten superlative
- normale feminine nominative singular
- normales neuter nominative singular
- normalen genitive masculine singular
- normalem dative masculine singular
- der normale definite includes-article masculine
- die normale definite feminine includes-article
- das normale definite includes-article neuter
- die normalen definite includes-article nominative
- des normalen definite genitive includes-article
- der normalen definite feminine genitive
- dem normalen dative definite includes-article
- Normale nominative plural
- Normals genitive singular
- Normalen dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to normal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is normal in German?
normal appears 59 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).