Übertritt
German, noun
Übertritt is spelled Ü-B-E-R-T-R-I-T-T (9 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written German, the 34,584th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Übertritt is a German masculine noun meaning “transfer; crossing (over border etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, übertritt is a different word: “third-person singular dependent present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Wechsel der Zugehörigkeit zu einer Gruppe, des Aufenthalts in einem Staat”.
What does Übertritt mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetransfer; crossing (over border etc.)
- 2
masculineconversion
verb
- 1
third-person singular dependent present
- 2
third-person singular present
- 3
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Wechsel der Zugehörigkeit zu einer Gruppe, des Aufenthalts in einem Staat 2. Zugabe beim Zuschneiden in der Schneiderei 3. Wechsel der Schulform
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 Übertritt
- Übertrittes genitive
- Übertritts genitive
- Übertritte plural
- Übertritten dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Übertritt in German?
Übertritt appears 1.2 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).