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kohärent

German, adjective/kohɛˈʁɛnt/

kohärent is spelled K-O-H-Ä-R-E-N-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 104,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kohärent is a German adjective meaning “coherent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “zusammenhängend, verbunden mit, einheitlich”.

What does kohärent mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    coherent

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. zusammenhängend, verbunden mit, einheitlich 2. Physik: (von Wellen oder quantenmechanischen Zuständen) frequenz- und phasengleich 3. Linguistik: (von den Worten in einem Text) semantisch zusammenhängend 4. Psychologie: (von Gedankengängen von Patienten) logisch zusammenhängend und nachvollziehbar; angepasst auf sozialer Ebene

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 kohärent

  • kohärenter masculine nominative singular
  • am kohärentesten superlative
  • kohärente feminine nominative singular
  • kohärentes neuter nominative singular
  • kohärenten genitive masculine singular
  • kohärentem dative masculine singular
  • der kohärente definite includes-article masculine
  • die kohärente definite feminine includes-article
  • das kohärente definite includes-article neuter
  • die kohärenten definite includes-article nominative
  • des kohärenten definite genitive includes-article
  • der kohärenten definite feminine genitive
  • dem kohärenten dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce kohärent?

  • /kohɛˈʁɛnt/
  • [ˌkohɛˈʁɛnt]

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

English words that translate to kohärent

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

How common is kohärent in German?

kohärent 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).

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