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Totenfest

German, noun

Totenfest is spelled T-O-T-E-N-F-E-S-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written German, the 317,631st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Totenfest is a German neuter noun meaning “A feast of commemoration for the souls of the departed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does Totenfest mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    neuterA feast of commemoration for the souls of the departed.

  2. 2

    neuterA Lutheran feast day observed on the last Sunday before the First Sunday of Advent.

  3. 3

    neuterAll Souls' Day

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of Totenfest

  • Totenfestes genitive
  • Totenfests genitive
  • Totenfeste plural
  • Totenfesten dative definite plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce Totenfest?

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is Totenfest in German?

Totenfest appears about once in every 30 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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