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dehnbar

German, adjective[ˈdeːnbaːɐ̯]

dehnbar is spelled D-E-H-N-B-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 81,387th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dehnbar is a German adjective meaning “ductile, tensile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “in Länge oder Form änderbar (von Materialien)”.

What does dehnbar mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    ductile, tensile

  2. 2

    elastic, stretchy

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. in Länge oder Form änderbar (von Materialien) 2. nicht klar umrissen; vieldeutig; mehrere Deutungen zulassend

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 dehnbar

  • dehnbarer masculine nominative singular
  • am dehnbarsten superlative
  • dehnbare feminine nominative singular
  • dehnbares neuter nominative singular
  • dehnbaren genitive masculine singular
  • dehnbarem dative masculine singular
  • der dehnbare definite includes-article masculine
  • die dehnbare definite feminine includes-article
  • das dehnbare definite includes-article neuter
  • die dehnbaren definite includes-article nominative
  • des dehnbaren definite genitive includes-article
  • der dehnbaren definite feminine genitive
  • dem dehnbaren dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce dehnbar?

  • [ˈdeːnbaːɐ̯]

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

English words that translate to dehnbar

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

How common is dehnbar in German?

dehnbar appears about once in every 3 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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