zwei
German, number
zwei is spelled Z-W-E-I (4 letters) and appears 871 times per million words in written German, the 116th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zwei is a German number meaning “two (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 2; or describing a set with two components)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zwei is a different word: “two (digit or figure)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zwei, die Kardinalzahl zwischen eins und drei”.
What does zwei mean in English?
number
- 1
two (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 2; or describing a set with two components)
noun
- 1
femininetwo (digit or figure)
- 2
femininean academic grade indicating "good", corresponding roughly to a B in English-speaking countries
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
number: 1. zwei, die Kardinalzahl zwischen eins und drei 2. „zwei Uhr“ oder „vierzehn Uhr“ 3. „zwei Jahre (alt)“
noun: 1. die natürliche Zahl zwischen der Eins und der Drei 2. die Ziffer Zwei (2, ٢, 二, 貳) 3. „gut“, die zweitbeste Zeugnisnote 4. zwei Augen auf einem Würfel
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 zwei
- zwey alternative obsolete
- zway alternative obsolete
- Zweien plural
- zween variant archaic
- zwen variant
- zwo variant
- zweie variant
- [1] Arabische Ziffer: 2 symbol
- [1] Römisches Zahlzeichen: Ⅱ (Unicode-Zeichen für II) symbol
- die zwei Dinge nominative definite
- zwei Dinge nominative indefinite
- der zwei Dinge genitive definite
- zweier Dinge genitive indefinite
- den zwei Dingen dative definite
- zwei Dingen dative indefinite
- meine zwei Dinge nominative possessive pronoun
- zwei meiner Dinge nominative possessive pronoun
- meiner zwei Dinge genitive possessive pronoun
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to zwei
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zwei in German?
zwei appears 871 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).