souverän
German, adjective
souverän is spelled S-O-U-V-E-R-Ä-N (8 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written German, the 8,348th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Souverän is a German adjective meaning “sovereign” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Souverän is a different word: “sovereign (holder of the most fundamental authority in a political…”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “uneingeschränkt, unumschränkt, niemandem zur Rechenschaft verpflichtet”.
What does souverän mean in English?
adjective
- 1
sovereign
- 2
confident, masterful
noun
- 1
masculinesovereign (holder of the most fundamental authority in a political system)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Herrscher, der uneingeschränkte Macht über ein Land hat 2. Gesamtheit der eidgenössischen, kantonalen oder kommunalen Stimmbürger
adjective: 1. uneingeschränkt, unumschränkt, niemandem zur Rechenschaft verpflichtet 2. im Auftreten sicher, überlegen, erhaben
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 souverän
- souveräner masculine nominative singular
- am souveränsten superlative
- souveräne feminine nominative singular
- souveränes neuter nominative singular
- souveränen genitive masculine singular
- souveränem dative masculine singular
- der souveräne definite includes-article masculine
- die souveräne definite feminine includes-article
- das souveräne definite includes-article neuter
- die souveränen definite includes-article nominative
- des souveränen definite genitive includes-article
- der souveränen definite feminine genitive
- dem souveränen dative definite includes-article
- Souveränin feminine
- Souveräne nominative plural
- Souveräns genitive singular
- Souveränen dative plural
- souverain alternative archaic
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to souverän
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is souverän in German?
souverän appears 8.1 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).