wendisch
German, adjective/ˈvɛndɪʃ/
wendisch is spelled W-E-N-D-I-S-C-H (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 116,815th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wendisch is a German adjective meaning “Sorbian; Wendish (referring to the native West Slavic-speaking population in parts of Saxony and Brandenburg)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “auf die Wenden bezogen, sie betreffend”.
What does wendisch mean in English?
adjective
- 1
datedSorbian; Wendish (referring to the native West Slavic-speaking population in parts of Saxony and Brandenburg)
- 2
referring to the Slavic tribes that settled west of the Oder (along the Elbe) or to their later linguistic remnants (outside of Sorbian areas until ca. 1700)
- 3
archaicSlavic in general
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. auf die Wenden bezogen, sie betreffend
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 wendisch
- wendischer masculine nominative singular
- wendische feminine nominative singular
- wendisches neuter nominative singular
- wendischen genitive masculine singular
- wendischem dative masculine singular
- der wendische definite includes-article masculine
- die wendische definite feminine includes-article
- das wendische definite includes-article neuter
- die wendischen definite includes-article nominative
- des wendischen definite genitive includes-article
- der wendischen definite feminine genitive
- dem wendischen dative definite includes-article
- den wendischen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce wendisch?
- /ˈvɛndɪʃ/
- [ˈvɛndɪʃ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to wendisch
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is wendisch in German?
wendisch appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).