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irgendwelche

German, pronoun/ˈɪʁɡn̩tˌvɛlçə/

irgendwelche is spelled I-R-G-E-N-D-W-E-L-C-H-E (12 letters) and appears 28 times per million words in written German, the 2,961st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Irgendwelche is a German pronoun meaning “any (no matter which)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit bestimmten, aber nicht näher spezifizierten Eigenschaften”.

What does irgendwelche mean in English?

pronoun

  1. 1

    any (no matter which)

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

pronoun: 1. etwas mit bestimmten, aber nicht näher spezifizierten Eigenschaften

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 irgendwelche

  • iwelche alternative Internet
  • irgendwelcher nominative singular masculine
  • irgendwelches nominative singular neuter
  • irgendwelchen genitive singular masculine
  • irgendwelchem dative singular masculine

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce irgendwelche?

  • /ˈɪʁɡn̩tˌvɛlçə/
  • colloquial /ˈɪɐ̯n(t)vɛlçə/
  • [ˈɪʁɡn̩tˌvɛlçə]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to irgendwelche

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is irgendwelche in German?

irgendwelche appears 28 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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