Totensonntag
German, noun/ˌtoːtənˈzɔnˌtaːk/
Totensonntag is spelled T-O-T-E-N-S-O-N-N-T-A-G (12 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 111,951st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Totensonntag is a German masculine noun meaning “A holiday of remembering the dead, equivalent to the Catholic (and Anglican) All Souls' Day, kept by German Lutherans and Calvinists on the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “letzter Sonntag (im November) vor Advent, an dem der Verstorbenen des vergangenen Jahres gedacht wird; in…”.
What does Totensonntag mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineA holiday of remembering the dead, equivalent to the Catholic (and Anglican) All Souls' Day, kept by German Lutherans and Calvinists on the Sunday before the first Sunday of Advent (thus in late November).
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. letzter Sonntag (im November) vor Advent, an dem der Verstorbenen des vergangenen Jahres gedacht wird; in Deutschland ein sogenannter stiller Feiertag
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 Totensonntag
- Totensonntags genitive
- Totensonntages genitive
- Totensonntage plural
- Totensonntagen dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Totensonntag?
- standard /ˌtoːtənˈzɔnˌtaːk/
- [ˈtoːtn̩ˌzɔntaːk]
- [ˈtoːtənˌzɔntaːk]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Totensonntag in German?
Totensonntag appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).