null
German, adjective
null is spelled N-U-L-L (4 letters) and appears 36 times per million words in written German, the 2,298th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Null is a German adjective meaning “null, null and void (invalid)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Null is a different word: “zero (a numeral; numeric symbol of zero)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “überhaupt kein, überhaupt keine”.
What does null mean in English?
number
- 1
zero; nil; nought; (tennis) love (integer number between −1 and 1, denoting no quantity at all)
Null mal null ist null.
- 2
colloquialzero; no
Ich hab echt null Bock, da mit dir jetzt drüber zu diskutieren.
adjective
- 1
null, null and void (invalid)
adverb
- 1
colloquialnot at all
Fußball interessiert mich null.
noun
- 1
femininezero (a numeral; numeric symbol of zero)
- 2
derogatoryfemininefailure, loser
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. überhaupt kein, überhaupt keine
number: 1. die Kardinalzahl vor eins; der Wert null; die Ziffer „0“
adjective: 1. ohne Wert, nicht definiert
noun: 1. die ganze (und je nach Definition natürliche) Zahl vor der Eins; die Kardinalität der leeren Menge 2. die Ziffer Null (0 – in Fremdsprachen auch: ٠, 零, 〇) 3. kurz für Nullpunkt (etwa bei einem Thermometer) 4. eine inkompetente Person
noun: 1. Spiel, bei dem man keine Punkte machen darf
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 null
- nuller masculine nominative singular
- nulle feminine nominative singular
- nulles neuter nominative singular
- nullen genitive masculine singular
- nullem dative masculine singular
- der nulle definite includes-article masculine
- die nulle definite feminine includes-article
- das nulle definite includes-article neuter
- die nullen definite includes-article nominative
- des nullen definite genitive includes-article
- der nullen definite feminine genitive
- dem nullen dative definite includes-article
- den nullen dative definite includes-article
- NULL alternative
- Nullen nominative plural
- Nulls nominative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to null
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is null in German?
null appears 36 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).