Jugendliche
German, noun
Jugendliche is spelled J-U-G-E-N-D-L-I-C-H-E (11 letters) and appears 39 times per million words in written German, the 2,154th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jugendliche is a German feminine noun meaning “female equivalent of Jugendlicher: female youth, female teenager, female adolescent (up to 17–19 years of age)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, jugendliche is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “junge Frau im Alter etwa zwischen 14 und 18 Jahren”.
What does Jugendliche mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefemale equivalent of Jugendlicher: female youth, female teenager, female adolescent (up to 17–19 years of age)
noun
- 1
masculinestrong nominative/accusative plural
- 2
masculineweak nominative singular
adjective
- 1
femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- 2
strong nominative/accusative plural
- 3
weak nominative all-gender singular
- 4
feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. junge Frau im Alter etwa zwischen 14 und 18 Jahren
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 Jugendliche
- die Jugendliche definite nominative
- Jugendlicher genitive
- der Jugendlichen definite genitive
- die Jugendlichen definite plural
- Jugendlichen dative plural strong
- den Jugendlichen dative plural
- eine Jugendliche nominative singular
- keine Jugendlichen nominative plural
- einer Jugendlichen genitive singular
- keiner Jugendlichen genitive plural
- keinen Jugendlichen dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Jugendliche
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Jugendliche in German?
Jugendliche appears 39 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).