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zehn

German, number

zehn is spelled Z-E-H-N (4 letters) and appears 120 times per million words in written German, the 726th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zehn is a German number meaning “ten (numerical value represented in Arabic numerals as 10)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zehn is a different word: “ten (number)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “die Kardinalzahl zwischen neun und elf”.

What does zehn mean in English?

number

  1. 1

    ten (numerical value represented in Arabic numerals as 10)

noun

as Zehn
  1. 1

    feminineten (number)

  2. 2

    feminineten (playing card)

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 neun und elf 2. „zehn Uhr“ oder „zweiundzwanzig Uhr“

noun: 1. die natürliche Zahl zwischen der Neun und der Elf 2. die (römische, chinesische, tamilische) Ziffer Zehn (X, 十/拾, ௰ …) 3. Spielkarte mit zehn Augen

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 zehn

  • Zehnen plural
  • zehne variant
  • 10 symbol
  • Ⅹ symbol
  • A symbol
  • [1] Keilschriftzeichen: 𒌋 symbol
  • die zehn Dinge nominative definite
  • zehn Dinge nominative indefinite
  • der zehn Dinge genitive definite
  • zehner Dinge genitive indefinite
  • den zehn Dingen dative definite
  • zehn Dingen dative indefinite
  • meine zehn Dinge nominative possessive pronoun
  • zehn meiner Dinge nominative possessive pronoun
  • meiner zehn Dinge genitive possessive pronoun
  • zehner meiner Dinge genitive possessive pronoun
  • meinen zehn Dingen dative possessive pronoun
  • zehnen 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 zehn

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is zehn in German?

zehn appears 120 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).

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