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Obst

German, noun

Obst is spelled O-B-S-T (4 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written German, the 4,505th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Obst is a German neuter noun meaning “fruit (food)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, obst is a different word: “second-person singular/plural present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “roh essbare, meist saftige Früchte, die von Bäumen, Sträuchern und mehrjährigen Stauden stammen, mit…”.

What does Obst mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    neuterfruit (food)

    Heute esse ich nur Obst.

  2. 2

    neuterslangcocaine

verb

as obst
  1. 1

    second-person singular/plural present

  2. 2

    third-person singular present

  3. 3

    plural imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. roh essbare, meist saftige Früchte, die von Bäumen, Sträuchern und mehrjährigen Stauden stammen, mit überwiegend süßlichem oder säuerlichem, „fruchtigem“ Geschmack

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 Obst

  • Obstes genitive
  • Obsts genitive
  • Obste dative singular

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to Obst

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Obst in German?

Obst appears 17 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).

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