wunderbar
German, adjective/ˈvʊndəʁˌbaːʁ/
wunderbar is spelled W-U-N-D-E-R-B-A-R (9 letters) and appears 29 times per million words in written German, the 2,820th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wunderbar is a German adjective meaning “wonderful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “wie ein Wunder”.
What does wunderbar mean in English?
adjective
- 1
wonderful
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. wie ein Wunder 2. überragend gut, besonders schön oder herrlich
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 wunderbar
- wunderbarer masculine nominative singular
- am wunderbarsten superlative
- wunderbare feminine nominative singular
- wunderbares neuter nominative singular
- wunderbaren genitive masculine singular
- wunderbarem dative masculine singular
- der wunderbare definite includes-article masculine
- die wunderbare definite feminine includes-article
- das wunderbare definite includes-article neuter
- die wunderbaren definite includes-article nominative
- des wunderbaren definite genitive includes-article
- der wunderbaren definite feminine genitive
- dem wunderbaren dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce wunderbar?
- /ˈvʊndəʁˌbaːʁ/
- [ˈvʊndɐˌbaːɐ̯]
- [ˈvʊndɐbaːɐ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to wunderbar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is wunderbar in German?
wunderbar appears 29 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).