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unwirklich

German, adjective/ˈʊnˌvɪʁklɪç/

unwirklich is spelled U-N-W-I-R-K-L-I-C-H (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 52,749th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Unwirklich is a German adjective meaning “unreal, insubstantial” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “scheinbar nicht der Wirklichkeit/der Realität entsprechend”.

What does unwirklich mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    unreal, insubstantial

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. scheinbar nicht der Wirklichkeit/der Realität entsprechend

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 unwirklich

  • unwirklicher masculine nominative singular
  • am unwirklichsten superlative
  • unwirkliche feminine nominative singular
  • unwirkliches neuter nominative singular
  • unwirklichen genitive masculine singular
  • unwirklichem dative masculine singular
  • der unwirkliche definite includes-article masculine
  • die unwirkliche definite feminine includes-article
  • das unwirkliche definite includes-article neuter
  • die unwirklichen definite includes-article nominative
  • des unwirklichen definite genitive includes-article
  • der unwirklichen definite feminine genitive
  • dem unwirklichen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce unwirklich?

  • /ˈʊnˌvɪʁklɪç/
  • [ˈʊnˌvɪʁklɪç]

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

English words that translate to unwirklich

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

How common is unwirklich in German?

unwirklich 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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