Gelehrte
German, noun
Gelehrte is spelled G-E-L-E-H-R-T-E (8 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written German, the 19,862nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gelehrte is a German feminine noun meaning “female equivalent of Gelehrter: female scholar/savant/pundit; woman of letters, female academic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, gelehrte is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “weibliche Person, die über erhebliches Wissen, meist einer bestimmten Fachrichtung, verfügt”.
What does Gelehrte mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefemale equivalent of Gelehrter: female scholar/savant/pundit; woman of letters, female academic
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 über erhebliches Wissen, meist einer bestimmten Fachrichtung, verfügt
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 Gelehrte
- die Gelehrte definite nominative
- Gelehrter genitive
- der Gelehrten definite genitive
- die Gelehrten definite plural
- Gelehrten dative plural strong
- den Gelehrten dative plural
- eine Gelehrte nominative singular
- keine Gelehrten nominative plural
- einer Gelehrten genitive singular
- keiner Gelehrten genitive plural
- keinen Gelehrten dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Gelehrte
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Gelehrte in German?
Gelehrte appears 2.6 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).