Halbstarker
German, noun
Halbstarker is spelled H-A-L-B-S-T-A-R-K-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 161,302nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Halbstarker is a German masculine noun meaning “teenager, yob (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive/dative singular of Halbstarke. In lower case, halbstarker is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Jugendlicher, der in der Öffentlichkeit aggressiv auftritt und pöbelt”.
What does Halbstarker mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialderogatorymasculineteenager, yob (male or of unspecified gender)
noun
- 1
femininestrong genitive/dative singular
- 2
femininestrong genitive plural
adjective
- 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. Jugendlicher, der in der Öffentlichkeit aggressiv auftritt und pöbelt
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 Halbstarker
- der Halbstarke definite nominative
- Halbstarken genitive
- Halbstarke plural
- die Halbstarken definite plural
- Halbstarkem dative singular strong
- des Halbstarken genitive singular
- der Halbstarken genitive plural
- dem Halbstarken dative singular
- den Halbstarken dative plural
- ein Halbstarker nominative singular
- keine Halbstarken nominative plural
- eines Halbstarken genitive singular
- keiner Halbstarken genitive plural
- einem Halbstarken dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Halbstarker
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Halbstarker in German?
Halbstarker appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).