Unterhalt
German, noun
Unterhalt is spelled U-N-T-E-R-H-A-L-T (9 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written German, the 10,058th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unterhalt is a German masculine noun meaning “alimony, maintenance, (child) support (court-enforced allowance)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, unterhält is a different word: “third-person singular present of unterhalten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “materielle Absicherung für Personen”.
What does Unterhalt mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealimony, maintenance, (child) support (court-enforced allowance)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present of unterhalten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. materielle Absicherung für Personen 2. Instandhaltung eines Objekts
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 Unterhalt
- Unterhaltes genitive
- Unterhalts genitive
- Unterhalte dative singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Unterhalt
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Unterhalt in German?
Unterhalt appears 6.5 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).