obligatorisch
German, adjective/ɔbliɡaˈtoːʁɪʃ/
obligatorisch is spelled O-B-L-I-G-A-T-O-R-I-S-C-H (13 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written German, the 28,576th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Obligatorisch is a German adjective meaning “compulsory (mandatory)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “verpflichtend, verbindlich, vorgeschrieben, zwingend erforderlich”.
What does obligatorisch mean in English?
adjective
- 1
compulsory (mandatory)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. verpflichtend, verbindlich, vorgeschrieben, zwingend erforderlich
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 obligatorisch
- obligatorischer masculine nominative singular
- obligatorische feminine nominative singular
- obligatorisches neuter nominative singular
- obligatorischen genitive masculine singular
- obligatorischem dative masculine singular
- der obligatorische definite includes-article masculine
- die obligatorische definite feminine includes-article
- das obligatorische definite includes-article neuter
- die obligatorischen definite includes-article nominative
- des obligatorischen definite genitive includes-article
- der obligatorischen definite feminine genitive
- dem obligatorischen dative definite includes-article
- den obligatorischen dative definite includes-article
- obl. abbreviation
- oblig. abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce obligatorisch?
- /ɔbliɡaˈtoːʁɪʃ/
- [ɔbliɡaˈtoːʁɪʃ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to obligatorisch
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is obligatorisch in German?
obligatorisch appears 1.6 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).