gelassen
German, adjective
gelassen is a German adjective meaning “calm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of lassen. With a capital, Gelassen is a different word: “dative plural of Gelass”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ruhig – meist trotz nervöser Atmosphäre; nicht beeindruckt”.
What does gelassen mean in English?
adjective
- 1
calm
- 2
serene, composed
verb
- 1
past participle of lassen
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Gelass
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. ruhig – meist trotz nervöser Atmosphäre; nicht beeindruckt
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 gelassen
- gelassener masculine nominative singular
- gelassner comparative
- am gelassensten superlative
- gelassene feminine nominative singular
- gelassenes neuter nominative singular
- gelassenen genitive masculine singular
- gelassenem dative masculine singular
- der gelassene definite includes-article masculine
- die gelassene definite feminine includes-article
- das gelassene definite includes-article neuter
- die gelassenen definite includes-article nominative
- des gelassenen definite genitive includes-article
- der gelassenen definite feminine genitive
- dem gelassenen dative definite includes-article
- gel. abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to gelassen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gelassen in German?
gelassen appears 38 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).