Trost
German, noun
Trost is spelled T-R-O-S-T (5 letters) and appears 8.3 times per million words in written German, the 8,191st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trost is a German masculine noun meaning “consolation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, tröst is a different word: “singular imperative of trösten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Handlung, Geste oder Gegebenheit, die zur Linderung von Leid beiträgt”.
What does Trost mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineconsolation
verb
- 1
singular imperative of trösten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Handlung, Geste oder Gegebenheit, die zur Linderung von Leid beiträgt
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 Trost
- Trostes genitive
- Trosts genitive
- Troste dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Trost
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Trost in German?
Trost appears 8.3 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).