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autoritativ

German, adjective[aʊ̯toʁiˈtaˈtiːf]

autoritativ is spelled A-U-T-O-R-I-T-A-T-I-V (11 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written German, the 282,248th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Autoritativ is a German adjective meaning “authoritative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “auf Autorität beruhend, mit Autorität ausgestattet, auf Autorität bestehend”.

What does autoritativ mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    authoritative

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. auf Autorität beruhend, mit Autorität ausgestattet, auf Autorität bestehend

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 autoritativ

  • autoritativer masculine nominative singular
  • autoritative feminine nominative singular
  • autoritatives neuter nominative singular
  • autoritativen genitive masculine singular
  • autoritativem dative masculine singular
  • der autoritative definite includes-article masculine
  • die autoritative definite feminine includes-article
  • das autoritative definite includes-article neuter
  • die autoritativen definite includes-article nominative
  • des autoritativen definite genitive includes-article
  • der autoritativen definite feminine genitive
  • dem autoritativen dative definite includes-article
  • den autoritativen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce autoritativ?

  • [aʊ̯toʁiˈtaˈtiːf]
  • [ˌaʊ̯toʁitaˈtiːf]

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

English words that translate to autoritativ

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

How common is autoritativ in German?

autoritativ appears about once in every 24 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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