gelegen
German, adjective
gelegen is spelled G-E-L-E-G-E-N (7 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written German, the 3,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gelegen is a German adjective meaning “situated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of liegen. With a capital, Gelegen is a different word: “dative plural of Gelege”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “nach Ort, Zeit oder Umständen willkommen, recht, dienlich”.
What does gelegen mean in English?
adjective
- 1
situated
- 2
convenient
verb
- 1
past participle of liegen
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Gelege
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. nach Ort, Zeit oder Umständen willkommen, recht, dienlich 2. einen Ort einnehmend, befindlich
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 gelegen
- gelegener masculine nominative singular
- am gelegensten superlative
- gelegene feminine nominative singular
- gelegenes neuter nominative singular
- gelegenen genitive masculine singular
- gelegenem dative masculine singular
- der gelegene definite includes-article masculine
- die gelegene definite feminine includes-article
- das gelegene definite includes-article neuter
- die gelegenen definite includes-article nominative
- des gelegenen definite genitive includes-article
- der gelegenen definite feminine genitive
- dem gelegenen dative definite includes-article
- gel. abbreviation
- gelegner comparative
- gelegne positive nominative strong
- gelegnes positive nominative strong
- gelegnen positive genitive strong
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to gelegen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gelegen in German?
gelegen appears 23 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).