impotent
German, adjective/ˈɪmpotɛnt/
impotent is spelled I-M-P-O-T-E-N-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 80,178th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Impotent is a German adjective meaning “impotent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “zur Zeugung, zum Geschlechtsverkehr nicht fähig”.
What does impotent mean in English?
adjective
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impotent
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. zur Zeugung, zum Geschlechtsverkehr nicht fähig 2. machtlos, unfähig, nicht schöpferisch
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 impotent
- impotenter masculine nominative singular
- am impotentesten superlative
- impotente feminine nominative singular
- impotentes neuter nominative singular
- impotenten genitive masculine singular
- impotentem dative masculine singular
- der impotente definite includes-article masculine
- die impotente definite feminine includes-article
- das impotente definite includes-article neuter
- die impotenten definite includes-article nominative
- des impotenten definite genitive includes-article
- der impotenten definite feminine genitive
- dem impotenten dative definite includes-article
- imp. abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce impotent?
- /ˈɪmpotɛnt/
- [ˈɪmpotɛnt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to impotent
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is impotent in German?
impotent appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).