gelehrt
German, adjective[ɡəˈleːɐ̯t]
gelehrt is spelled G-E-L-E-H-R-T (7 letters) and appears 6.3 times per million words in written German, the 10,247th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gelehrt is a German adjective meaning “learned, scholarly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of lehren. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sehr gut akademisch ausgebildet, mit umfassenden Kenntnissen ausgestattet”.
What does gelehrt mean in English?
adjective
- 1
learned, scholarly
verb
- 1
past participle of lehren
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. sehr gut akademisch ausgebildet, mit umfassenden Kenntnissen ausgestattet
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 gelehrt
- gelehrter masculine nominative singular
- am gelehrtesten superlative
- gelehrte feminine nominative singular
- gelehrtes neuter nominative singular
- gelehrten genitive masculine singular
- gelehrtem dative masculine singular
- der gelehrte definite includes-article masculine
- die gelehrte definite feminine includes-article
- das gelehrte definite includes-article neuter
- die gelehrten definite includes-article nominative
- des gelehrten definite genitive includes-article
- der gelehrten definite feminine genitive
- dem gelehrten dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gelehrt?
- [ɡəˈleːɐ̯t]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gelehrt
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gelehrt in German?
gelehrt appears 6.3 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).