hölzern
German, adjective
hölzern is spelled H-Ö-L-Z-E-R-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 42,412th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hölzern is a German adjective meaning “wooden, ligneous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Hölzern is a different word: “dative plural of Holz”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “aus Holz bestehend, aus Holz gefertigt”.
What does hölzern mean in English?
adjective
- 1
wooden, ligneous
- 2
awkward
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Holz
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. aus Holz bestehend, aus Holz gefertigt 2. steif, wie aus Holz
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 hölzern
- hölzerner masculine nominative singular
- hölzerne feminine nominative singular
- hölzernes neuter nominative singular
- hölzernen genitive masculine singular
- hölzernem dative masculine singular
- der hölzerne definite includes-article masculine
- die hölzerne definite feminine includes-article
- das hölzerne definite includes-article neuter
- die hölzernen definite includes-article nominative
- des hölzernen definite genitive includes-article
- der hölzernen definite feminine genitive
- dem hölzernen dative definite includes-article
- den hölzernen dative definite includes-article
- am hölzernsten superlative
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to hölzern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hölzern in German?
hölzern appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).