vier
German, number
vier is spelled V-I-E-R (4 letters) and appears 275 times per million words in written German, the 329th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vier is a German number meaning “four (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 4; or describing a set with four elements)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Vier is a different word: “four (digit or figure 4)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Kardinalzahl zwischen drei und fünf”.
What does vier mean in English?
number
- 1
four (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 4; or describing a set with four elements)
noun
- 1
femininefour (digit or figure 4)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
number: 1. die Kardinalzahl zwischen drei und fünf 2. „vier Uhr“ oder „sechzehn Uhr“ 3. „vier Jahre (alt)“
noun: 1. die natürliche Zahl zwischen der Drei und der Fünf 2. die Ziffer Vier (4, IIII, IV, ٤, 四, 肆) 3. „ausreichend“, eine Zeugnisnote 4. vier Augen auf einem Würfel
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 vier
- Vieren plural
- viere variant outdated
- 4 symbol
- Ⅳ symbol
- ⅳ symbol
- IIII symbol
- die vier Dinge nominative definite
- vier Dinge nominative indefinite
- der vier Dinge genitive definite
- vierer Dinge genitive indefinite
- den vier Dingen dative definite
- vier Dingen dative indefinite
- meine vier Dinge nominative possessive pronoun
- vier meiner Dinge nominative possessive pronoun
- meiner vier Dinge genitive possessive pronoun
- vierer meiner Dinge genitive possessive pronoun
- meinen vier Dingen dative possessive pronoun
- vieren meiner Dinge dative possessive pronoun
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to vier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vier in German?
vier appears 275 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).