Alleinstehender
German, noun
Alleinstehender is spelled A-L-L-E-I-N-S-T-E-H-E-N-D-E-R (15 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 107,140th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alleinstehender is a German masculine noun meaning “single man, single person (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive/dative singular of Alleinstehende. In lower case, alleinstehender is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(männliche^☆) Person, die momentan kein/e Partner/in hat, nicht verheiratet oder verlobt ist beziehungsweise…”.
What does Alleinstehender mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesingle man, single person (male or of unspecified gender)
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. (männliche^☆) Person, die momentan kein/e Partner/in hat, nicht verheiratet oder verlobt ist beziehungsweise war und auch keine Kinder hat
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 Alleinstehender
- der Alleinstehende definite nominative
- Alleinstehenden genitive
- Alleinstehende plural
- die Alleinstehenden definite plural
- Alleinstehendem dative singular strong
- des Alleinstehenden genitive singular
- der Alleinstehenden genitive plural
- dem Alleinstehenden dative singular
- den Alleinstehenden dative plural
- ein Alleinstehender nominative singular
- keine Alleinstehenden nominative plural
- eines Alleinstehenden genitive singular
- keiner Alleinstehenden genitive plural
- einem Alleinstehenden dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Alleinstehender in German?
Alleinstehender appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).