rüde
German, adjective
rüde is spelled R-Ü-D-E (4 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written German, the 30,977th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rüde is a German adjective meaning “rude, harsh” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Rüde is a different word: “male dog (male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch (often…”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich grob verhaltend”.
What does rüde mean in English?
adjective
- 1
rude, harsh
noun
- 1
masculinemale dog (male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch (often attributive), also used for certain other mammals)
- 2
masculinehound, foxhound
- 3
archaicmasculineherding dog, guard dog (strong male dog used for certain tasks)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. sich grob verhaltend
noun: 1. Tier männlichen Geschlechts (von Hunden, Wölfen, Füchsen, Dachsen, Mardern)
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 rüde
- rüder masculine nominative singular
- am rüdesten superlative
- rüdes neuter nominative singular
- rüden genitive masculine singular
- rüdem dative masculine singular
- der rüde definite includes-article masculine
- die rüde definite feminine includes-article
- das rüde definite includes-article neuter
- die rüden definite includes-article nominative
- des rüden definite genitive includes-article
- der rüden definite feminine genitive
- dem rüden dative definite includes-article
- den rüden dative definite includes-article
- rüd variant Austrian German
- am rüdsten superlative
- Fähe feminine
- Hündin feminine
- Rüden nominative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to rüde
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rüde in German?
rüde appears 1.4 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).