palatal
German, adjective
palatal is spelled P-A-L-A-T-A-L (7 letters) and appears about once in every 55 million words in written German, the 452,179th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Palatal is a German adjective meaning “palatal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Palatal is a different word: “palatal”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit Zunge und Palatum (harter Gaumen) gebildet”.
What does palatal mean in English?
adjective
- 1
palatal
noun
- 1
masculinepalatal
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. mit Zunge und Palatum (harter Gaumen) gebildet
noun: 1. Bezeichnung für Konsonanten (Mitlaute), die palatal, das heißt mit dem Zungenrücken am Palatum (= harter Gaumen) artikuliert werden
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 palatal
- palataler masculine nominative singular
- palatale feminine nominative singular
- palatales neuter nominative singular
- palatalen genitive masculine singular
- palatalem dative masculine singular
- der palatale definite includes-article masculine
- die palatale definite feminine includes-article
- das palatale definite includes-article neuter
- die palatalen definite includes-article nominative
- des palatalen definite genitive includes-article
- der palatalen definite feminine genitive
- dem palatalen dative definite includes-article
- den palatalen dative definite includes-article
- Palatale nominative plural
- Palatals genitive singular
- Palatalen dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to palatal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is palatal in German?
palatal appears about once in every 55 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).