pleistozän
German, adjective[plaɪ̯stoˈt͡sɛːn]
pleistozän is spelled P-L-E-I-S-T-O-Z-Ä-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 132,783rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pleistozän is a German adjective meaning “Pleistocene” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does pleistozän mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Pleistocene
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. erdgeschichtliche Epoche, geprägt durch mehrere Eiszeiten, die vor etwa 2,4 Mio. Jahren begann und vor etwa 11.300 Jahren endete
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 pleistozän
- pleistozäner masculine nominative singular
- pleistozäne feminine nominative singular
- pleistozänes neuter nominative singular
- pleistozänen genitive masculine singular
- pleistozänem dative masculine singular
- der pleistozäne definite includes-article masculine
- die pleistozäne definite feminine includes-article
- das pleistozäne definite includes-article neuter
- die pleistozänen definite includes-article nominative
- des pleistozänen definite genitive includes-article
- der pleistozänen definite feminine genitive
- dem pleistozänen dative definite includes-article
- den pleistozänen dative definite includes-article
- Pleistozäns genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pleistozän?
- [plaɪ̯stoˈt͡sɛːn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pleistozän in German?
pleistozän 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).