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ambulant

German, adjective/ambuˈlant/

ambulant is spelled A-M-B-U-L-A-N-T (8 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written German, the 29,978th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ambulant is a German adjective meaning “ambulant; outpatient” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “nur zur kurzweiligen Behandlung beim Arzt oder in einem Krankenhaus, nicht länger dort bleibend”.

What does ambulant mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    ambulant; outpatient

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. nur zur kurzweiligen Behandlung beim Arzt oder in einem Krankenhaus, nicht länger dort bleibend 2. wandernd, nicht an einem Ort bleibend, nicht ortsgebunden

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 ambulant

  • ambulanter masculine nominative singular
  • ambulante feminine nominative singular
  • ambulantes neuter nominative singular
  • ambulanten genitive masculine singular
  • ambulantem dative masculine singular
  • der ambulante definite includes-article masculine
  • die ambulante definite feminine includes-article
  • das ambulante definite includes-article neuter
  • die ambulanten definite includes-article nominative
  • des ambulanten definite genitive includes-article
  • der ambulanten definite feminine genitive
  • dem ambulanten dative definite includes-article
  • den ambulanten dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce ambulant?

  • /ambuˈlant/
  • [ambuˈlant]

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

English words that translate to ambulant

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

How common is ambulant in German?

ambulant appears 1.5 times per 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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