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missionarisch

German, adjective/mɪsɪ̯oˈnaːʁɪʃ/

missionarisch is spelled M-I-S-S-I-O-N-A-R-I-S-C-H (13 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 132,783rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Missionarisch is a German adjective meaning “missionary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “in der Art eines Missionars, die christliche Mission betreffend”.

What does missionarisch mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    missionary

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. in der Art eines Missionars, die christliche Mission betreffend

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 missionarisch

  • missionarischer masculine nominative singular
  • am missionarischsten superlative
  • missionarische feminine nominative singular
  • missionarisches neuter nominative singular
  • missionarischen genitive masculine singular
  • missionarischem dative masculine singular
  • der missionarische definite includes-article masculine
  • die missionarische definite feminine includes-article
  • das missionarische definite includes-article neuter
  • die missionarischen definite includes-article nominative
  • des missionarischen definite genitive includes-article
  • der missionarischen definite feminine genitive
  • dem missionarischen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce missionarisch?

  • /mɪsɪ̯oˈnaːʁɪʃ/
  • [mɪsi̯oˈnaːʁɪʃ]

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

English words that translate to missionarisch

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

How common is missionarisch in German?

missionarisch appears about once in every 7 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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