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vorgelagert

German, adjective/ˈfoːɐ̯ɡəˌlaːɡɐt/

vorgelagert is spelled V-O-R-G-E-L-A-G-E-R-T (11 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 73,335th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vorgelagert is a German adjective meaning “foremost; upstream” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “vor etwas gelegen, sich vor etwas befindend”.

What does vorgelagert mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    foremost; upstream

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. vor etwas gelegen, sich vor etwas befindend

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 vorgelagert

  • vorgelagerter masculine nominative singular
  • am vorgelagertsten rare superlative
  • vorgelagerte feminine nominative singular
  • vorgelagertes neuter nominative singular
  • vorgelagerten genitive masculine singular
  • vorgelagertem dative masculine singular
  • der vorgelagerte definite includes-article masculine
  • die vorgelagerte definite feminine includes-article
  • das vorgelagerte definite includes-article neuter
  • die vorgelagerten definite includes-article nominative
  • des vorgelagerten definite genitive includes-article
  • der vorgelagerten definite feminine genitive
  • dem vorgelagerten dative definite includes-article
  • am vorgelagertesten superlative

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

How do you pronounce vorgelagert?

  • /ˈfoːɐ̯ɡəˌlaːɡɐt/
  • [ˈfoːɐ̯ɡəˌlaːɡɐt]

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

How common is vorgelagert in German?

vorgelagert appears about once in every 3 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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