Halbvokal
German, noun/ˈhalpvoˌkaːl/
Halbvokal is spelled H-A-L-B-V-O-K-A-L (9 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written German, the 423,336th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Halbvokal is a German masculine noun meaning “semivowel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Laut, der phonetisch gesehen weder den Vokalen noch den Konsonanten eindeutig zugeordnet werden kann und…”.
What does Halbvokal mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesemivowel
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Laut, der phonetisch gesehen weder den Vokalen noch den Konsonanten eindeutig zugeordnet werden kann und nicht in silbentragender Position, also nicht als Silbenkern verwendet wird.
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 Halbvokal
- Halbvokals genitive
- Halbvokale plural
- Halbvokalen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Halbvokal?
- /ˈhalpvoˌkaːl/
- [ˈhalpvoˌkaːl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Halbvokal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Halbvokal in German?
Halbvokal appears about once in every 49 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).