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Gelehrter

German, noun

Gelehrter is spelled G-E-L-E-H-R-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written German, the 20,880th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gelehrter is a German masculine noun meaning “scholar, savant, pundit, man of letters, academic (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive/dative singular of Gelehrte. In lower case, gelehrter is a different word: “comparative degree of gelehrt”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “gebildete Person, die über erhebliches Wissen, meist einer bestimmten Fachrichtung, verfügt”.

What does Gelehrter mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinescholar, savant, pundit, man of letters, academic (male or of unspecified gender)

noun

  1. 1

    femininestrong genitive/dative singular

  2. 2

    femininestrong genitive plural

adjective

as gelehrter
  1. 1

    comparative degree of gelehrt

adjective

as gelehrter
  1. 1

    masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular

  2. 2

    femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular

  3. 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. gebildete 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 Gelehrter

  • der Gelehrte definite nominative
  • Gelehrten genitive
  • Gelehrte plural
  • die Gelehrten definite plural
  • Gelehrtin feminine
  • Gelehrtem dative singular strong
  • des Gelehrten genitive singular
  • der Gelehrten genitive plural
  • dem Gelehrten dative singular
  • den Gelehrten dative plural
  • ein Gelehrter nominative singular
  • keine Gelehrten nominative plural
  • eines Gelehrten genitive singular
  • keiner Gelehrten genitive plural
  • einem Gelehrten dative singular

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to Gelehrter

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Gelehrter in German?

Gelehrter appears 2.5 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).

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