vaterländisch
German, adjective/ˈfaːtɐˌlɛndɪʃ/
vaterländisch is spelled V-A-T-E-R-L-Ä-N-D-I-S-C-H (13 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written German, the 381,294th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vaterländisch is a German adjective meaning “patriotic, nationalistic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “das Vaterland betreffend, zum Vaterland gehörend, das Vaterland liebend/verehrend”.
What does vaterländisch mean in English?
adjective
- 1
patriotic, nationalistic
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. das Vaterland betreffend, zum Vaterland gehörend, das Vaterland liebend/verehrend
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 vaterländisch
- vaterländischer masculine nominative singular
- am vaterländischsten superlative
- vaterländische feminine nominative singular
- vaterländisches neuter nominative singular
- vaterländischen genitive masculine singular
- vaterländischem dative masculine singular
- der vaterländische definite includes-article masculine
- die vaterländische definite feminine includes-article
- das vaterländische definite includes-article neuter
- die vaterländischen definite includes-article nominative
- des vaterländischen definite genitive includes-article
- der vaterländischen definite feminine genitive
- dem vaterländischen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vaterländisch?
- /ˈfaːtɐˌlɛndɪʃ/
- [ˈfaːtɐˌlɛndɪʃ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is vaterländisch in German?
vaterländisch appears about once in every 41 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).