# ich

**Part of speech:** PRON  
**Frequency rank:** #3 most common German word  
**Language:** German

The first-person singular pronoun, "I". German is not pro-drop, so unlike Romanian or Spanish you must say ich — it can't be dropped. It is only capitalized at the start of a sentence (never mid-sentence, unlike English "I").

## Meanings

- **I (the speaker)** — Always required with a 1st-person verb; the verb ending alone is not enough in standard German.

## Forms

ich

## Nearby words by frequency

- [der](https://mostspoken.com/words/de/der)
- [sein](https://mostspoken.com/words/de/sein)
- [sie](https://mostspoken.com/words/de/sie)
- [ein](https://mostspoken.com/words/de/ein)
- [nicht](https://mostspoken.com/words/de/nicht)
- [haben](https://mostspoken.com/words/de/haben)
- [du](https://mostspoken.com/words/de/du)
- [und](https://mostspoken.com/words/de/und)

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Source: [https://mostspoken.com/words/de/ich](https://mostspoken.com/words/de/ich) — MostSpoken German frequency dictionary.