Streik
German, noun
Streik is spelled S-T-R-E-I-K (6 letters) and appears 7.8 times per million words in written German, the 8,702nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Streik is a German masculine noun meaning “strike (work stoppage)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, streik is a different word: “singular imperative of streiken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine kollektive Arbeitsniederlegung (Verweigerung), mit dem Ziel, den im Rahmen eines Arbeitskampfes…”.
What does Streik mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestrike (work stoppage)
verb
- 1
singular imperative of streiken
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of streiken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. eine kollektive Arbeitsniederlegung (Verweigerung), mit dem Ziel, den im Rahmen eines Arbeitskampfes erhobenen Forderungen Nachdruck zu verleihen
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 Streik
- Streiks genitive
- Streikes genitive rare
- Streike plural rare
- Streiken dative definite plural
- Strike alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Streik in German?
Streik appears 7.8 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).