Überträger
German, noun
Überträger is spelled Ü-B-E-R-T-R-Ä-G-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 74,397th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Überträger is a German masculine noun meaning “carrier (person or animal transmitting a disease without contracting it)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Übertrager is a different word: “transformer”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Lebewesen, das etwas überträgt”.
What does Überträger mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecarrier (person or animal transmitting a disease without contracting it)
noun
- 1
masculinetransformer
- 2
masculinetransducer
- 3
masculineexchanger
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lebewesen, das etwas überträgt
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 Überträger
- Überträgers genitive
- Überträgern dative definite plural
- Übertragers genitive
- Übertragern dative definite plural
- Überträgerin feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Überträger in German?
Überträger appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).