Nachbar
German, noun/ˈnaxbaːr/
Nachbar is spelled N-A-C-H-B-A-R (7 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written German, the 5,473rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nachbar is a German masculine noun meaning “neighbour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “in unmittelbarer Nähe wohnende Person”.
What does Nachbar mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineneighbour
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. in unmittelbarer Nähe wohnende Person 2. in unmittelbarer Nähe befindliche Person 3. benachbarte Gemeinde, Land und so weiter
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 Nachbar
- Nachbarn genitive
- Nachbars error-unknown-tag genitive informal
- Nachbarin feminine
- Nachbauer alternative obsolete
- Nachbaur alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Nachbar?
- /ˈnaxbaːr/
- [ˈnaχbaː(ɐ̯)]
- [-baːʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Nachbar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Nachbar in German?
Nachbar appears 13 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).