untern
German, contraction
untern is spelled U-N-T-E-R-N (6 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written German, the 38,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Untern is a German contraction meaning “contraction of unter + den” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Untern is a different word: “dative plural of Unter”.
What does untern mean in English?
contraction
- 1
colloquialcontraction of unter + den
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Unter
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. unter den
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is untern in German?
untern appears 1.0 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).