wach
German, adjective/vax/
wach is spelled W-A-C-H (4 letters) and appears 29 times per million words in written German, the 2,820th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wach is a German adjective meaning “awake” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht schlafend, bereits aus dem Schlaf erwacht oder noch nicht eingeschlafen”.
What does wach mean in English?
adjective
- 1
awake
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. nicht schlafend, bereits aus dem Schlaf erwacht oder noch nicht eingeschlafen 2. einen guten Verstand, einen regen Geist habend; interessiert daran, begierig darauf, Eindrücke, Informationen zu erhalten und zu verarbeiten
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 wach
- wacher masculine nominative singular
- am wachsten superlative
- wache feminine nominative singular
- waches neuter nominative singular
- wachen genitive masculine singular
- wachem dative masculine singular
- der wache definite includes-article masculine
- die wache definite feminine includes-article
- das wache definite includes-article neuter
- die wachen definite includes-article nominative
- des wachen definite genitive includes-article
- der wachen definite feminine genitive
- dem wachen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce wach?
- /vax/
- [vaχ]
- [vax]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to wach
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is wach in German?
wach appears 29 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).