Zeuge
German, noun
Zeuge is spelled Z-E-U-G-E (5 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written German, the 5,262nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zeuge is a German masculine noun meaning “witness, wit (slang), deponent, attestor (attester), voucher (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Zeug. In lower case, zeuge is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Person, die etwas Bestimmtes gesehen oder auf andere Art wahrgenommen hat und dies auch bestätigen…”.
What does Zeuge mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewitness, wit (slang), deponent, attestor (attester), voucher (male or of unspecified gender)
noun
- 1
neuterrarenominative/accusative/genitive plural of Zeug
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. eine Person, die etwas Bestimmtes gesehen oder auf andere Art wahrgenommen hat und dies auch bestätigen kann/könnte
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 Zeuge
- Zeugen genitive
- Zeugin feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Zeuge
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Zeuge in German?
Zeuge appears 14 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).