Gelähmter
German, noun
Gelähmter is spelled G-E-L-Ä-H-M-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 170,338th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gelähmter is a German masculine noun meaning “paralytic (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, gelähmter is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemand, der unter partiellem Funktionsverlust des Nervensystems leidet und daher bestimmte Körperteile nicht…”.
What does Gelähmter mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineparalytic (male or of unspecified gender)
verb
- 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 unter partiellem Funktionsverlust des Nervensystems leidet und daher bestimmte Körperteile nicht mehr 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 Gelähmter
- der Gelähmte definite nominative
- Gelähmten genitive
- Gelähmte plural
- die Gelähmten definite plural
- Gelähmtem dative singular strong
- des Gelähmten genitive singular
- der Gelähmten genitive plural
- dem Gelähmten dative singular
- den Gelähmten dative plural
- ein Gelähmter nominative singular
- keine Gelähmten nominative plural
- eines Gelähmten genitive singular
- keiner Gelähmten genitive plural
- einem Gelähmten dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Gelähmter in German?
Gelähmter appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).