sonderbar
German, adjective/ˈzɔndəʁˌbaːʁ/
sonderbar is spelled S-O-N-D-E-R-B-A-R (9 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written German, the 29,051st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sonderbar is a German adjective meaning “strange, odd” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich im Vergleich abhebend, einen unterschiedlichen Charakter besitzend, durch Absonderung entstanden oder…”.
What does sonderbar mean in English?
adjective
- 1
strange, odd
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. sich im Vergleich abhebend, einen unterschiedlichen Charakter besitzend, durch Absonderung entstanden oder entstehend
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 sonderbar
- sonderbarer masculine nominative singular
- am sonderbarsten superlative
- sonderbare feminine nominative singular
- sonderbares neuter nominative singular
- sonderbaren genitive masculine singular
- sonderbarem dative masculine singular
- der sonderbare definite includes-article masculine
- die sonderbare definite feminine includes-article
- das sonderbare definite includes-article neuter
- die sonderbaren definite includes-article nominative
- des sonderbaren definite genitive includes-article
- der sonderbaren definite feminine genitive
- dem sonderbaren dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sonderbar?
- /ˈzɔndəʁˌbaːʁ/
- [ˈzɔndɐˌbaːɐ̯]
- /ˈsɔndəʁˌbaːʁ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sonderbar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sonderbar in German?
sonderbar appears 1.5 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).