bürgerlich
German, adjective[ˈbʏʁɡɐlɪç]
bürgerlich is a German adjective meaning “civic, civil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “auf die Staatsbürger oder die Bürger eines Gemeinwesens bezogen”.
What does bürgerlich mean in English?
adjective
- 1
civic, civil
- 2
bourgeois, middle-class
- 3
untitled (not of aristocratic descent)
- 4
plain, good home
- 5
centre-right, conservative, non-socialist
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. auf die Staatsbürger oder die Bürger eines Gemeinwesens bezogen 2. auf die Menschen bezogen, die dem Bürgertum angehören
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 bürgerlich
- bürgerlicher masculine nominative singular
- bürgerliche feminine nominative singular
- bürgerliches neuter nominative singular
- bürgerlichen genitive masculine singular
- bürgerlichem dative masculine singular
- der bürgerliche definite includes-article masculine
- die bürgerliche definite feminine includes-article
- das bürgerliche definite includes-article neuter
- die bürgerlichen definite includes-article nominative
- des bürgerlichen definite genitive includes-article
- der bürgerlichen definite feminine genitive
- dem bürgerlichen dative definite includes-article
- den bürgerlichen dative definite includes-article
- am bürgerlichsten superlative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bürgerlich?
- [ˈbʏʁɡɐlɪç]
- [ˈbʏɐ̯ɡɐlɪç]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bürgerlich
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bürgerlich in German?
bürgerlich appears 3.2 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).