Auslandsdeutscher
German, noun
Auslandsdeutscher is spelled A-U-S-L-A-N-D-S-D-E-U-T-S-C-H-E-R (17 letters) and appears about once in every 68 million words in written German, the 508,518th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Auslandsdeutscher is a German masculine noun meaning “German living abroad (male or unspecified; German outside Germany)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive/dative singular of Auslandsdeutsche. In lower case, auslandsdeutscher is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person deutscher Herkunft, die außerhalb von Deutschland lebt”.
What does Auslandsdeutscher mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineGerman living abroad (male or unspecified; German outside Germany)
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. Person deutscher Herkunft, die außerhalb von Deutschland lebt
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 Auslandsdeutscher
- der Auslandsdeutsche definite nominative
- Auslandsdeutschen genitive
- Auslandsdeutsche plural
- die Auslandsdeutschen definite plural
- Auslandsdeutschem dative singular strong
- des Auslandsdeutschen genitive singular
- der Auslandsdeutschen genitive plural
- dem Auslandsdeutschen dative singular
- den Auslandsdeutschen dative plural
- ein Auslandsdeutscher nominative singular
- keine Auslandsdeutschen nominative plural
- eines Auslandsdeutschen genitive singular
- keiner Auslandsdeutschen genitive plural
- einem Auslandsdeutschen dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Auslandsdeutscher in German?
Auslandsdeutscher appears about once in every 68 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).