wir
German, pronoun/viːɐ̯/
wir is spelled W-I-R (3 letters) and appears 3,467 times per million words in written German, the 39th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wir is a German pronoun meaning “we” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “1. Person Plural; mehrere Personen, die sprechende eingeschlossen”.
What does wir mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
we
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. 1. Person Plural; mehrere Personen, die sprechende eingeschlossen
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 wir
- ich first-person nominative personal
- du error-unrecognized-form nominative personal
- er masculine nominative personal
- sie feminine nominative personal
- es neuter nominative personal
- ihr error-unrecognized-form nominative personal
- Sie error-unrecognized-form nominative personal
- Ihr error-unrecognized-form nominative personal
- meiner first-person genitive personal
- mein first-person genitive personal
- deiner error-unrecognized-form genitive personal
- dein error-unrecognized-form genitive personal
- seiner genitive masculine personal
- sein genitive masculine personal
- ihrer feminine genitive personal
- unser first-person genitive personal
- euer error-unrecognized-form genitive personal
- Ihrer error-unrecognized-form genitive personal
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce wir?
- standard /viːɐ̯/
- colloquial /vɐ/
- colloquial /mɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to wir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is wir in German?
wir appears 3,467 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).