sonne
German, pronoun
sonne is spelled S-O-N-N-E (5 letters) and appears 71 times per million words in written German, the 1,205th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sonne is a German pronoun meaning “contraction of so eine (“such a”) (so, ein)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present of sonnen. With a capital, Sonne is a different word: “a sun (a star, especially when being the center of a solar system)”.
What does sonne mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
colloquialcontraction of so eine (“such a”) (so, ein)
- 2
Ungrammatical synonym of solch in plural.
Wer macht denn sonne Sachen?
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
noun
- 1
femininea sun (a star, especially when being the center of a solar system)
- 2
femininesunshine, sunlight (the light and warmth we receive on Earth from the sun)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. der Erde nächster Stern, Zentrum unseres Sonnensystems 2. Sonnenschein oder -licht 3. allgemeine Bezeichnung für irgendeinen Stern 4. zusammen mit dem Kugelschlagapparat ein Arbeitsgerät des Schornsteinfegers
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 sonne
- so'ne alternative
- sone alternative
- Sonnen plural
- ☉ symbol
- ☀ symbol
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sonne
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sonne in German?
sonne appears 71 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).