anderer
German, pronoun
anderer is spelled A-N-D-E-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears 100 times per million words in written German, the 863rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anderer is a German masculine pronoun meaning “another (one), others” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Anderer is a different word: “nominalization of andere: the other / different one (male or…”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “ein unterschiedlicher”.
What does anderer mean in English?
adjective
- 1
masculineother, different
ein and(e)rer Mann
- 2
archaicmasculinesecond
pronoun
- 1
masculineanother (one), others
Andere (Leute) wussten es früher
noun
- 1
masculinenominalization of andere: the other / different one (male or unspecified)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. ein unterschiedlicher 2. ein weiterer, noch einer 3. zweiter
noun: 1. von einer bestimmten Person unterschiedliche Person 2. (dieselbe) Person, die sich (im Laufe der Zeit) verändert hat oder anders erscheint als zuvor
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 anderer
- andere feminine
- anderes neuter
- andrer alternative
- Anderer alternative
- andre feminine nominative singular
- andres neuter nominative singular
- anderen genitive masculine singular
- andern genitive masculine singular
- andren genitive masculine singular
- anderem dative masculine singular
- anderm dative masculine singular
- andrem dative masculine singular
- ander variant archaic
- Andere feminine
- Anderen genitive singular
- Anderem dative singular
- der Andere nominative singular
- die Anderen nominative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to anderer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anderer in German?
anderer appears 100 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).