-wärts
German, suffix
-wärts is spelled W-Ä-R-T-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 127,251st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -wärts is a German suffix meaning “-wards. Forms adverbs denoting course or direction to, or motion or tendency toward. The adverbs are formed either from a noun or from a…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Warts is a different word: “genitive singular of Wart”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Wortbildungselement, das Substantive zu Adverbien ableitet, die beschreiben, dass etwas in Richtung zu einem…”.
What does -wärts mean in English?
suffix
- 1
-wards. Forms adverbs denoting course or direction to, or motion or tendency toward. The adverbs are formed either from a noun or from a preposition.
noun
- 1
genitive singular of Wart
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. Wortbildungselement, das Substantive zu Adverbien ableitet, die beschreiben, dass etwas in Richtung zu einem Objekt hin geschieht 2. Wortbildungselement, das (meist) Präpositionen zu Adverbien ableitet, welche die entsprechende Richtung beschreiben
adverb: 1. gerichtet, in Richtung auf
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to -wärts
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is -wärts in German?
-wärts appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).