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übers

German, contraction/ˈyːbɐs/

übers is spelled Ü-B-E-R-S (5 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written German, the 4,114th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Übers is a German contraction meaning “contraction of über + das, literally “over the, above the”” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does übers mean in English?

contraction

  1. 1

    contraction of über + das, literally “over the, above the”

    übers Ohr hauen

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

How German dictionaries define it

abbreviation: 1. über das

abbreviation: 1. übersetzt 2. übersichtlich

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How do you pronounce übers?

  • /ˈyːbɐs/
  • [ˈyːbɐs]
  • […]

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

How common is übers in German?

übers appears 19 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).

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