Protegé
German, noun/ˌpʁoːteˈʒeː/
Protegé is spelled P-R-O-T-E-G-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 146,442nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Protegé is a German masculine noun meaning “protégé” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “junge Person, die von einer älteren Person mit gesellschaftlichem Einfluss und/oder mehr Erfahrung auf einem…”.
What does Protegé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineprotégé
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. junge Person, die von einer älteren Person mit gesellschaftlichem Einfluss und/oder mehr Erfahrung auf einem Gebiet gefördert wird
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 Protegé
- Protegés genitive
- Protegée feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Protegé?
- /ˌpʁoːteˈʒeː/
- /ˌpʁɔteˈʒeː/
- [pʁoteˈʒeː]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Protegé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Protegé in German?
Protegé appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).