imaginär
German, adjective/ˌimaɡiˈnɛːɐ̯/
imaginär is spelled I-M-A-G-I-N-Ä-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 92,701st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imaginär is a German adjective meaning “imaginary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “eingebildet; nur in der Vorstellung existent”.
What does imaginär mean in English?
adjective
- 1
imaginary
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. eingebildet; nur in der Vorstellung existent 2. in der komplexen Zahlenebene darstellbar, wobei der Realteil null 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 imaginär
- imaginärer masculine nominative singular
- imaginäre feminine nominative singular
- imaginäres neuter nominative singular
- imaginären genitive masculine singular
- imaginärem dative masculine singular
- der imaginäre definite includes-article masculine
- die imaginäre definite feminine includes-article
- das imaginäre definite includes-article neuter
- die imaginären definite includes-article nominative
- des imaginären definite genitive includes-article
- der imaginären definite feminine genitive
- dem imaginären dative definite includes-article
- den imaginären dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce imaginär?
- /ˌimaɡiˈnɛːɐ̯/
- /-ˈneːɐ̯/
- [imaɡiˈnɛːɐ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to imaginär
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is imaginär in German?
imaginär 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).