kirchenslawisch
German, adjective/ˈkɪʁçn̩ˌslaːvɪʃ/
kirchenslawisch is spelled K-I-R-C-H-E-N-S-L-A-W-I-S-C-H (15 letters) and appears about once in every 71 million words in written German, the 522,009th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kirchenslawisch is a German adjective meaning “Church Slavonic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “das Kirchenslawische betreffend, die traditionelle Liturgiesprache der orthodoxen Kirchen”.
What does kirchenslawisch mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Church Slavonic
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. traditionelle Liturgiesprache, die in den slawischsprachigen Ländern von den orthodoxen Kirchen und den katholischen Ostkirchen verwendet wurde bzw. verwendet wird
adjective: 1. das Kirchenslawische betreffend, die traditionelle Liturgiesprache der orthodoxen Kirchen
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 kirchenslawisch
- kirchenslawischer masculine nominative singular
- kirchenslawische feminine nominative singular
- kirchenslawisches neuter nominative singular
- kirchenslawischen genitive masculine singular
- kirchenslawischem dative masculine singular
- der kirchenslawische definite includes-article masculine
- die kirchenslawische definite feminine includes-article
- das kirchenslawische definite includes-article neuter
- die kirchenslawischen definite includes-article nominative
- des kirchenslawischen definite genitive includes-article
- der kirchenslawischen definite feminine genitive
- dem kirchenslawischen dative definite includes-article
- den kirchenslawischen dative definite includes-article
- (das) Kirchenslawisch nominative singular
- das Kirchenslawische nominative singular
- (des) Kirchenslawisch genitive singular
- (des) Kirchenslawischs genitive singular
- des Kirchenslawischen genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kirchenslawisch?
- /ˈkɪʁçn̩ˌslaːvɪʃ/
- [ˈkɪʁçn̩ˌslaːvɪʃ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is kirchenslawisch in German?
kirchenslawisch appears about once in every 71 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).