Preisgabe
German, noun
Preisgabe is spelled P-R-E-I-S-G-A-B-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 63,211th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Preisgabe is a German feminine noun meaning “abandonment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, preisgäbe is a different word: “first/third-person singular dependent subjunctive II of preisgeben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Handlung, etwas aufzugeben oder weiterzugeben”.
What does Preisgabe mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineabandonment
- 2
femininedisclosure
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular dependent subjunctive II of preisgeben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Handlung, etwas aufzugeben oder weiterzugeben
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 Preisgabe
- Preisgaben plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Preisgabe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Preisgabe in German?
Preisgabe appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).