Sohn
German, noun/zoːn/
Sohn is spelled S-O-H-N (4 letters) and appears 166 times per million words in written German, the 523rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sohn is a German masculine noun meaning “son” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “männlicher, direkter Nachkomme”.
What does Sohn mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineson
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. männlicher, direkter Nachkomme
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 Sohn
- Sohnes genitive
- Sohns genitive
- Söhne plural
- Söhnchen diminutive neuter
- Söhnlein diminutive neuter
- Sohne dative singular
- Söhnen dative definite plural
- Tochter feminine
- Sohnemann diminutive
- Sohnematz diminutive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Sohn?
- /zoːn/
- Austria /soːn/
- [zoːn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Sohn
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Sohn in German?
Sohn appears 166 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).