sauber
German, adjective
sauber is spelled S-A-U-B-E-R (6 letters) and appears 29 times per million words in written German, the 2,820th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sauber is a German adjective meaning “clean” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, säuber is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht verschmutzt, frei von Unrat”.
What does sauber mean in English?
adjective
- 1
clean
- 2
neat, tidy
- 3
informalgood, all right
- 4
AustriaSwitzerlandpretty, cute
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. nicht verschmutzt, frei von Unrat 2. reinlich, keinen Schmutz produzierend 3. Herr über die eigene Notdurft 4. den formalen, inhaltlichen Anforderungen gemäß
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 sauber
- sauberer masculine nominative singular
- am saubersten superlative
- saubere feminine nominative singular
- sauberes neuter nominative singular
- sauberen genitive masculine singular
- sauberem dative masculine singular
- der saubere definite includes-article masculine
- die saubere definite feminine includes-article
- das saubere definite includes-article neuter
- die sauberen definite includes-article nominative
- des sauberen definite genitive includes-article
- der sauberen definite feminine genitive
- dem sauberen dative definite includes-article
- saubrer comparative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sauber
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sauber in German?
sauber appears 29 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).