Gefangener
German, noun
Gefangener is spelled G-E-F-A-N-G-E-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written German, the 23,467th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gefangener is a German masculine noun meaning “prisoner, captive, detainee, prison inmate, incarceree (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive/dative singular of Gefangene. In lower case, gefangener is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemand, der gefangen ist, sich also nicht frei bewegen kann”.
What does Gefangener mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineprisoner, captive, detainee, prison inmate, incarceree (male or of unspecified gender)
Gefangene werden nicht gemacht
noun
- 1
femininestrong genitive/dative singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive plural
adjective
- 1
masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular
- 3
strong genitive plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. jemand, der 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 Gefangener
- der Gefangene definite nominative
- Gefangenen genitive
- Gefangene plural
- die Gefangenen definite plural
- Gefangenem dative singular strong
- des Gefangenen genitive singular
- der Gefangenen genitive plural
- dem Gefangenen dative singular
- den Gefangenen dative plural
- ein Gefangener nominative singular
- keine Gefangenen nominative plural
- eines Gefangenen genitive singular
- keiner Gefangenen genitive plural
- einem Gefangenen dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Gefangener
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Gefangener in German?
Gefangener appears 2.1 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).