brauchbar
German, adjective/ˈbʁaʊ̯χbaːɐ̯/
brauchbar is spelled B-R-A-U-C-H-B-A-R (9 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written German, the 21,930th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Brauchbar is a German adjective meaning “useful, handy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “für etwas geeignet”.
What does brauchbar mean in English?
adjective
- 1
useful, handy
- 2
usable
- 3
colloquialquite good, decent (not bad)
- 4
practicable, working
- 5
sound
adverb
- 1
colloquialquite well
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. für etwas geeignet
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 brauchbar
- brauchbarer masculine nominative singular
- am brauchbarsten superlative
- brauchbare feminine nominative singular
- brauchbares neuter nominative singular
- brauchbaren genitive masculine singular
- brauchbarem dative masculine singular
- der brauchbare definite includes-article masculine
- die brauchbare definite feminine includes-article
- das brauchbare definite includes-article neuter
- die brauchbaren definite includes-article nominative
- des brauchbaren definite genitive includes-article
- der brauchbaren definite feminine genitive
- dem brauchbaren dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce brauchbar?
- /ˈbʁaʊ̯χbaːɐ̯/
- [ˈbʁaʊ̯xbaːɐ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to brauchbar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is brauchbar in German?
brauchbar appears 2.3 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).