Alleinerziehender
German, noun
Alleinerziehender is spelled A-L-L-E-I-N-E-R-Z-I-E-H-E-N-D-E-R (17 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 71,199th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alleinerziehender is a German masculine noun meaning “single father” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive/dative singular of Alleinerziehende. In lower case, alleinerziehender is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Elternteil, der sein Kind oder seine Kinder allein großzieht”.
What does Alleinerziehender mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesingle father
noun
- 1
femininestrong genitive/dative singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive plural
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. Elternteil, der sein Kind oder seine Kinder allein großzieht
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 Alleinerziehender
- der Alleinerziehende definite nominative
- Alleinerziehenden genitive
- Alleinerziehende plural
- die Alleinerziehenden definite plural
- Alleinerziehendem dative singular strong
- allein Erziehender alternative
- des Alleinerziehenden genitive singular
- der Alleinerziehenden genitive plural
- dem Alleinerziehenden dative singular
- den Alleinerziehenden dative plural
- ein Alleinerziehender nominative singular
- keine Alleinerziehenden nominative plural
- eines Alleinerziehenden genitive singular
- keiner Alleinerziehenden genitive plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Alleinerziehender in German?
Alleinerziehender appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).