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abendländisch

German, adjective[ˈaːbn̩tˌlɛndɪʃ]

abendländisch is spelled A-B-E-N-D-L-Ä-N-D-I-S-C-H (13 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written German, the 251,029th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abendländisch is a German adjective meaning “occidental” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “das Abendland betreffend, zu ihm gehörend, charakteristisch für das Abendland”.

What does abendländisch mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    occidental

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. das Abendland betreffend, zu ihm gehörend, charakteristisch für das Abendland

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 abendländisch

  • abendländischer masculine nominative singular
  • abendländische feminine nominative singular
  • abendländisches neuter nominative singular
  • abendländischen genitive masculine singular
  • abendländischem dative masculine singular
  • der abendländische definite includes-article masculine
  • die abendländische definite feminine includes-article
  • das abendländische definite includes-article neuter
  • die abendländischen definite includes-article nominative
  • des abendländischen definite genitive includes-article
  • der abendländischen definite feminine genitive
  • dem abendländischen dative definite includes-article
  • den abendländischen dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce abendländisch?

  • [ˈaːbn̩tˌlɛndɪʃ]
  • [ˈaːbm̩tˌlɛndɪʃ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to abendländisch

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is abendländisch in German?

abendländisch appears about once in every 19 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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