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unachtsam

German, adjective/ˈʊnʔaxtzaːm/

unachtsam is spelled U-N-A-C-H-T-S-A-M (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 69,095th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unachtsam is a German adjective meaning “unwary, careless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “die notwendige Sorgfalt vermissen lassend”.

What does unachtsam mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    unwary, careless

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. die notwendige Sorgfalt vermissen lassend

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 unachtsam

  • unachtsamer masculine nominative singular
  • am unachtsamsten superlative
  • unachtsame feminine nominative singular
  • unachtsames neuter nominative singular
  • unachtsamen genitive masculine singular
  • unachtsamem dative masculine singular
  • der unachtsame definite includes-article masculine
  • die unachtsame definite feminine includes-article
  • das unachtsame definite includes-article neuter
  • die unachtsamen definite includes-article nominative
  • des unachtsamen definite genitive includes-article
  • der unachtsamen definite feminine genitive
  • dem unachtsamen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce unachtsam?

  • /ˈʊnʔaxtzaːm/
  • [ˈʊnʔaxtzaːm]

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

English words that translate to unachtsam

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is unachtsam in German?

unachtsam appears about once in every 2 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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