Gefangene
German, noun
Gefangene is spelled G-E-F-A-N-G-E-N-E (9 letters) and appears 7.4 times per million words in written German, the 9,010th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gefangene is a German feminine noun meaning “prisoner, captive, detainee (female)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong nominative/accusative plural of Gefangener. In lower case, gefangene is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “weibliche Person, die gefangen ist, sich also nicht frei bewegen kann”.
What does Gefangene mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineprisoner, captive, detainee (female)
noun
- 1
masculinestrong nominative/accusative plural
- 2
masculineweak nominative singular
adjective
- 1
femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- 2
strong nominative/accusative plural
- 3
weak nominative all-gender singular
- 4
feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. weibliche Person, die gefangen ist, sich also nicht frei bewegen kann
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 Gefangene
- die Gefangene definite nominative
- Gefangener genitive
- der Gefangenen definite genitive
- die Gefangenen definite plural
- Gefangenen dative plural strong
- den Gefangenen dative plural
- eine Gefangene nominative singular
- keine Gefangenen nominative plural
- einer Gefangenen genitive singular
- keiner Gefangenen genitive plural
- keinen Gefangenen dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Gefangene
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Gefangene in German?
Gefangene appears 7.4 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).