Verdächtiger

German, noun

Verdächtiger is a German masculine noun meaning “suspect (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a strong genitive/dative singular of Verdächtige. In lower case, verdächtiger is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person, die verdächtigt wird, etwas getan zu haben, wobei man noch nicht weiß, ob die Person das tatsächlich…”.

What does Verdächtiger mean in English?

noun

1
masculinesuspect (male or of unspecified gender)

noun

1
femininestrong genitive/dative singular
2
femininestrong genitive plural

adjective

as verdächtiger

1
masculinestrong/mixed nominative masculine singular
2
femininestrong genitive/dative feminine singular
3
strong genitive plural

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

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Person, die verdächtigt wird, etwas getan zu haben, wobei man noch nicht weiß, ob die Person das tatsächlich getan hat

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 Verdächtiger

der Verdächtige definite nominative
Verdächtigen genitive
Verdächtige plural
die Verdächtigen definite plural
Verdächtigem dative singular strong
des Verdächtigen genitive singular
der Verdächtigen genitive plural
dem Verdächtigen dative singular
den Verdächtigen dative plural
ein Verdächtiger nominative singular
keine Verdächtigen nominative plural
eines Verdächtigen genitive singular
keiner Verdächtigen genitive plural
einem Verdächtigen dative singular

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

English words that translate to Verdächtiger

suspect

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

How common is Verdächtiger in German?

Verdächtiger appears 2.5 times per million words in written German.

Verdächtiger0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Germanmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).