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unprätentiös

German, adjective/ˈʊnpʁɛtɛnˌt͡sɪ̯øːs/

unprätentiös is spelled U-N-P-R-Ä-T-E-N-T-I-Ö-S (12 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 172,698th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unprätentiös is a German adjective meaning “unpretentious” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht prätentiös, unauffällig, nicht eingebildet, sondern redlich und bescheiden”.

What does unprätentiös mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    unpretentious

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. nicht prätentiös, unauffällig, nicht eingebildet, sondern redlich und bescheiden

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 unprätentiös

  • unprätentiöser masculine nominative singular
  • am unprätentiösesten superlative
  • unprätentiöse feminine nominative singular
  • unprätentiöses neuter nominative singular
  • unprätentiösen genitive masculine singular
  • unprätentiösem dative masculine singular
  • der unprätentiöse definite includes-article masculine
  • die unprätentiöse definite feminine includes-article
  • das unprätentiöse definite includes-article neuter
  • die unprätentiösen definite includes-article nominative
  • des unprätentiösen definite genitive includes-article
  • der unprätentiösen definite feminine genitive
  • dem unprätentiösen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce unprätentiös?

  • /ˈʊnpʁɛtɛnˌt͡sɪ̯øːs/
  • [ˈʊnpʁɛtɛnˌt͡si̯øːs]

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

English words that translate to unprätentiös

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

How common is unprätentiös in German?

unprätentiös appears about once in every 10 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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