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erkennbar

German, adjective[ɛɐ̯ˈkɛnbaːɐ̯]

erkennbar is spelled E-R-K-E-N-N-B-A-R (9 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written German, the 4,267th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Erkennbar is a German adjective meaning “recognizable, discernible, visible, identifiable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “so deutlich, dass man weiß, was man vor seinen Augen hat”.

What does erkennbar mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    recognizable, discernible, visible, identifiable

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. so deutlich, dass man weiß, was man vor seinen Augen hat

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 erkennbar

  • erkennbarer masculine nominative singular
  • am erkennbarsten superlative
  • erkennbare feminine nominative singular
  • erkennbares neuter nominative singular
  • erkennbaren genitive masculine singular
  • erkennbarem dative masculine singular
  • der erkennbare definite includes-article masculine
  • die erkennbare definite feminine includes-article
  • das erkennbare definite includes-article neuter
  • die erkennbaren definite includes-article nominative
  • des erkennbaren definite genitive includes-article
  • der erkennbaren definite feminine genitive
  • dem erkennbaren dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce erkennbar?

  • [ɛɐ̯ˈkɛnbaːɐ̯]

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

English words that translate to erkennbar

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

How common is erkennbar in German?

erkennbar appears 18 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).

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