Sterke
German, noun/ˈʃtɛʁkə/
Sterke is spelled S-T-E-R-K-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 78 million words in written German, the 549,996th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sterke is a German feminine noun meaning “heifer (young cow that has not calved)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “junge Kuh; weibliches Rind, das kein Kalb mehr ist, aber noch nicht gekalbt hat”.
What does Sterke mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicfeminineheifer (young cow that has not calved)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. junge Kuh; weibliches Rind, das kein Kalb mehr ist, aber noch nicht gekalbt hat
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 Sterke
- Sterken plural
- Starke variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Sterke?
- /ˈʃtɛʁkə/
- [ˈʃtɛʁkə]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Sterke in German?
Sterke appears about once in every 78 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).