auswärtig
German, adjective/ˈaʊ̯svɛʁtɪç/
auswärtig is spelled A-U-S-W-Ä-R-T-I-G (9 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written German, the 274,993rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Auswärtig is a German adjective meaning “foreign, external” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich an einem anderen Ort befindend”.
What does auswärtig mean in English?
adjective
- 1
foreign, external
Bundesministerium für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
- 2
out-of-town, non-local
auswärtige Gäste
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. sich an einem anderen Ort befindend 2. von einem anderen Ort stammend, von auswärts kommend oder stammend 3. sich auf das Ausland beziehend, sich auf die Beziehung zum Ausland beziehend
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 auswärtig
- auswärtiger masculine nominative singular
- auswärtige feminine nominative singular
- auswärtiges neuter nominative singular
- auswärtigen genitive masculine singular
- auswärtigem dative masculine singular
- der auswärtige definite includes-article masculine
- die auswärtige definite feminine includes-article
- das auswärtige definite includes-article neuter
- die auswärtigen definite includes-article nominative
- des auswärtigen definite genitive includes-article
- der auswärtigen definite feminine genitive
- dem auswärtigen dative definite includes-article
- den auswärtigen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce auswärtig?
- /ˈaʊ̯svɛʁtɪç/
- /ˈaʊ̯svɛʁtɪk/
- [ˈaʊ̯sˌvɛʁtɪç]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is auswärtig in German?
auswärtig appears about once in every 23 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).