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kommissarisch

German, adjective/kɔmɪˈsaːʁɪʃ/

kommissarisch is spelled K-O-M-M-I-S-S-A-R-I-S-C-H (13 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 41,097th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kommissarisch is a German adjective meaning “provisional, temporary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “vorübergehend, in Vertretung”.

What does kommissarisch mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    provisional, temporary

  2. 2

    deputy

  3. 3

    acting

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. vorübergehend, in Vertretung

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 kommissarisch

  • kommissarischer masculine nominative singular
  • kommissarische feminine nominative singular
  • kommissarisches neuter nominative singular
  • kommissarischen genitive masculine singular
  • kommissarischem dative masculine singular
  • der kommissarische definite includes-article masculine
  • die kommissarische definite feminine includes-article
  • das kommissarische definite includes-article neuter
  • die kommissarischen definite includes-article nominative
  • des kommissarischen definite genitive includes-article
  • der kommissarischen definite feminine genitive
  • dem kommissarischen dative definite includes-article
  • den kommissarischen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce kommissarisch?

  • /kɔmɪˈsaːʁɪʃ/
  • [kɔmɪˈsaːʁɪʃ]

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

How common is kommissarisch in German?

kommissarisch appears about once in every 1 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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