Tribut
German, noun/tʁiˈbuːt/
Tribut is spelled T-R-I-B-U-T (6 letters) and appears 3.1 times per million words in written German, the 17,543rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tribut is a German masculine noun meaning “tribute (payment made by one nation to another in submission)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Abgabe (Geld oder Naturalien), die jemand (insbesondere ein Staat) regelmäßig als Zeichen der…”.
What does Tribut mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetribute (payment made by one nation to another in submission)
- 2
masculinetoll
seinen Tribut fordern
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. eine Abgabe (Geld oder Naturalien), die jemand (insbesondere ein Staat) regelmäßig als Zeichen der Unterwerfung zu leisten hat 2. Ehrerbietung
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 Tribut
- Tributes genitive
- Tributs genitive
- Tribute plural
- Tributen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Tribut?
- /tʁiˈbuːt/
- [tʁiˈbuːt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Tribut
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Tribut in German?
Tribut appears 3.1 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).