spontan
German, adjective/ʃpɔnˈtaːn/
spontan is spelled S-P-O-N-T-A-N (7 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written German, the 3,888th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Spontan is a German adjective meaning “spontaneous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “aus eigenem inneren Antrieb, ohne Planung, ohne lange Überlegung”.
What does spontan mean in English?
adjective
- 1
spontaneous
- 2
ad hoc
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. aus eigenem inneren Antrieb, ohne Planung, ohne lange Überlegung 2. ohne äußere Anregung, ohne äußeren Einfluss, aus sich selbst heraus
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 spontan
- spontaner masculine nominative singular
- am spontansten superlative
- spontane feminine nominative singular
- spontanes neuter nominative singular
- spontanen genitive masculine singular
- spontanem dative masculine singular
- der spontane definite includes-article masculine
- die spontane definite feminine includes-article
- das spontane definite includes-article neuter
- die spontanen definite includes-article nominative
- des spontanen definite genitive includes-article
- der spontanen definite feminine genitive
- dem spontanen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce spontan?
- /ʃpɔnˈtaːn/
- [ʃpɔnˈtaːn]
- [spɔnˈtaːn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to spontan
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is spontan in German?
spontan appears 20 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).