hartnäckig
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German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Bahuvrīhi compound of hart (“hard”) + Nacken (“neck”) + -ig (adjective suffix), literally “one with a hard, inflexible neck”.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈhaʁtˌnɛkɪç/ (standard)
(file) - IPA(key): /-ˌnɛkɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
(file) - Hyphenation: hart‧nä‧ckig
Adjective[edit]
hartnäckig (strong nominative masculine singular hartnäckiger, comparative hartnäckiger, superlative am hartnäckigsten)
Declension[edit]
Positive forms of hartnäckig
Comparative forms of hartnäckig
Superlative forms of hartnäckig
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “hartnäckig” in Duden online
- “hartnäckig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (2002) “hartnäckig”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 24th edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN