Heranwachsender
German, noun
Heranwachsender is spelled H-E-R-A-N-W-A-C-H-S-E-N-D-E-R (15 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 90,067th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Heranwachsender is a German masculine noun meaning “adolescent (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive/dative singular of Heranwachsende. In lower case, heranwachsender is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person, die dabei ist, erwachsen zu werden”.
What does Heranwachsender mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineadolescent (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. Person, die dabei ist, erwachsen zu werden 2. jemand, der über achtzehn Jahre, aber unter einundzwanzig Jahre alt ist
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 Heranwachsender
- der Heranwachsende definite nominative
- Heranwachsenden genitive
- Heranwachsende plural
- die Heranwachsenden definite plural
- Heranwachsendem dative singular strong
- des Heranwachsenden genitive singular
- der Heranwachsenden genitive plural
- dem Heranwachsenden dative singular
- den Heranwachsenden dative plural
- ein Heranwachsender nominative singular
- keine Heranwachsenden nominative plural
- eines Heranwachsenden genitive singular
- keiner Heranwachsenden genitive plural
- einem Heranwachsenden dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Heranwachsender in German?
Heranwachsender appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).