abstinent
German, adjective
abstinent is spelled A-B-S-T-I-N-E-N-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 92,701st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abstinent is a German adjective meaning “abstinent, teetotal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Abstinent is a different word: “abstinent (one who abstains from something)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “auf bestimmte Genüsse (besonders Rauschmittel) völlig verzichtend”.
What does abstinent mean in English?
adjective
- 1
abstinent, teetotal
noun
- 1
masculineabstinent (one who abstains from something)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. auf bestimmte Genüsse (besonders Rauschmittel) völlig verzichtend
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 abstinent
- abstinenter masculine nominative singular
- abstinente feminine nominative singular
- abstinentes neuter nominative singular
- abstinenten genitive masculine singular
- abstinentem dative masculine singular
- der abstinente definite includes-article masculine
- die abstinente definite feminine includes-article
- das abstinente definite includes-article neuter
- die abstinenten definite includes-article nominative
- des abstinenten definite genitive includes-article
- der abstinenten definite feminine genitive
- dem abstinenten dative definite includes-article
- den abstinenten dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to abstinent
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abstinent in German?
abstinent appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).