Achtjähriger
German, noun
Achtjähriger is spelled A-C-H-T-J-Ä-H-R-I-G-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 81,387th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Achtjähriger is a German masculine noun meaning “an eight-year-old (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, achtjähriger is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein Junge von acht Jahren”.
What does Achtjähriger mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinean eight-year-old (male or of unspecified gender)
adjective
- 1
masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular
- 3
strong genitive plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ein Junge von acht Jahren
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 Achtjähriger
- der Achtjährige definite nominative
- Achtjährigen genitive
- Achtjährige plural
- die Achtjährigen definite plural
- Achtjährigem dative singular strong
- 8-Jähriger alternative
- 8-jähriger alternative
- des Achtjährigen genitive singular
- der Achtjährigen genitive plural
- dem Achtjährigen dative singular
- den Achtjährigen dative plural
- ein Achtjähriger nominative singular
- keine Achtjährigen nominative plural
- eines Achtjährigen genitive singular
- keiner Achtjährigen genitive plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Achtjähriger in German?
Achtjähriger appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).