nachvollziehbar
German, adjective/ˈnaːχfɔlˌtsiːbaːʁ/
nachvollziehbar is spelled N-A-C-H-V-O-L-L-Z-I-E-H-B-A-R (15 letters) and appears 8.3 times per million words in written German, the 8,191st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nachvollziehbar is a German adjective meaning “understandable, comprehensible” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “so, dass man die Gründe oder den Werdegang verstehen kann”.
What does nachvollziehbar mean in English?
adjective
- 1
understandable, comprehensible
- 2
traceable
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. so, dass man die Gründe oder den Werdegang verstehen kann
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 nachvollziehbar
- nachvollziehbarer masculine nominative singular
- am nachvollziehbarsten superlative
- nachvollziehbare feminine nominative singular
- nachvollziehbares neuter nominative singular
- nachvollziehbaren genitive masculine singular
- nachvollziehbarem dative masculine singular
- der nachvollziehbare definite includes-article masculine
- die nachvollziehbare definite feminine includes-article
- das nachvollziehbare definite includes-article neuter
- die nachvollziehbaren definite includes-article nominative
- des nachvollziehbaren definite genitive includes-article
- der nachvollziehbaren definite feminine genitive
- dem nachvollziehbaren dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nachvollziehbar?
- /ˈnaːχfɔlˌtsiːbaːʁ/
- [ˈnaːχfɔlˌtsiːbaːɐ̯]
- [ˈnaːxfɔlt͡siːbaːɐ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to nachvollziehbar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nachvollziehbar in German?
nachvollziehbar appears 8.3 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).