vorstehend
German, adjective/ˈfoːɐ̯ˌʃteːənt/
vorstehend is spelled V-O-R-S-T-E-H-E-N-D (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 57,755th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vorstehend is a German adjective meaning “above-mentioned” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of vorstehen. The German Wiktionary defines it as “an (direkt) davor befindlicher Stelle im Text stehend, weiter oben im Text stehend, zuvor im Text…”.
What does vorstehend mean in English?
adjective
- 1
above-mentioned
verb
- 1
present participle of vorstehen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. an (direkt) davor befindlicher Stelle im Text stehend, weiter oben im Text stehend, zuvor im Text erwähnt/genannt/gesagt
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 vorstehend
- vorstehender masculine nominative singular
- vorstehende feminine nominative singular
- vorstehendes neuter nominative singular
- vorstehenden genitive masculine singular
- vorstehendem dative masculine singular
- der vorstehende definite includes-article masculine
- die vorstehende definite feminine includes-article
- das vorstehende definite includes-article neuter
- die vorstehenden definite includes-article nominative
- des vorstehenden definite genitive includes-article
- der vorstehenden definite feminine genitive
- dem vorstehenden dative definite includes-article
- den vorstehenden dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vorstehend?
- /ˈfoːɐ̯ˌʃteːənt/
- [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌʃteːənt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vorstehend
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vorstehend in German?
vorstehend 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).