ledern
German, adjective
ledern is spelled L-E-D-E-R-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written German, the 289,823rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ledern is a German adjective meaning “leather, leathery” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ledern is a different word: “dative plural of Leder”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “aus Leder bestehend oder gemacht”.
What does ledern mean in English?
adjective
- 1
leather, leathery
- 2
dry (boring)
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Leder
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. aus Leder bestehend oder gemacht 2. ähnliche Beschaffenheit wie Leder habend 3. ohne Abwechslung
verb: 1. mit einem ledernen Lappen putzen 2. wiederholt mit den Fäusten auf jemanden einschlagen 3. Leder gerben 4. mit Leder versehen
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 ledern
- lederner masculine nominative singular
- lederne feminine nominative singular
- ledernes neuter nominative singular
- ledernen genitive masculine singular
- ledernem dative masculine singular
- der lederne definite includes-article masculine
- die lederne definite feminine includes-article
- das lederne definite includes-article neuter
- die ledernen definite includes-article nominative
- des ledernen definite genitive includes-article
- der ledernen definite feminine genitive
- dem ledernen dative definite includes-article
- den ledernen dative definite includes-article
- lidern, liedern obsolete
- ledere present
- lederst present
- ledert present
- lederte past
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ledern
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ledern in German?
ledern appears about once in every 25 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).