Zwölfjähriger
German, noun
Zwölfjähriger is spelled Z-W-Ö-L-F-J-Ä-H-R-I-G-E-R (13 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 67,080th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zwölfjähriger is a German masculine noun meaning “a twelve-year-old (male or of unspecified gender)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, zwölfjähriger is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative masculine singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Junge im Alter von zwölf Jahren”.
What does Zwölfjähriger mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea twelve-year-old (male or of unspecified gender)
adjective
- 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. Junge im Alter von zwölf Jahren
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 Zwölfjähriger
- der Zwölfjährige definite nominative
- Zwölfjährigen genitive
- Zwölfjährige plural
- die Zwölfjährigen definite plural
- Zwölfjährigem dative singular strong
- 12-Jähriger alternative
- des Zwölfjährigen genitive singular
- der Zwölfjährigen genitive plural
- dem Zwölfjährigen dative singular
- den Zwölfjährigen dative plural
- ein Zwölfjähriger nominative singular
- keine Zwölfjährigen nominative plural
- eines Zwölfjährigen genitive singular
- keiner Zwölfjährigen genitive plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Zwölfjähriger in German?
Zwölfjähriger 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).