elegant
German, adjective
elegant is spelled E-L-E-G-A-N-T (7 letters) and appears 6.0 times per million words in written German, the 10,637th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Elegant is a German adjective meaning “elegant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Elegant is a different word: “dandy”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit Stil und Chic, modisch und geschmackvoll gekleidet und frisiert”.
What does elegant mean in English?
adjective
- 1
elegant
noun
- 1
derogatorymasculinedandy
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. mit Stil und Chic, modisch und geschmackvoll gekleidet und frisiert 2. auf gewandte, geschickte Weise zustandegekommen 3. auf eine feine und meist kultivierte Art und Weise
noun: 1. auffällig modisch gekleideter Mann
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 elegant
- eleganter masculine nominative singular
- am elegantesten superlative
- elegante feminine nominative singular
- elegantes neuter nominative singular
- eleganten genitive masculine singular
- elegantem dative masculine singular
- der elegante definite includes-article masculine
- die elegante definite feminine includes-article
- das elegante definite includes-article neuter
- die eleganten definite includes-article nominative
- des eleganten definite genitive includes-article
- der eleganten definite feminine genitive
- dem eleganten dative definite includes-article
- Elegants nominative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to elegant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is elegant in German?
elegant appears 6.0 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).