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achtjährig

German, adjective/ˈaxtˌjɛːʁɪç/

achtjährig is spelled A-C-H-T-J-Ä-H-R-I-G (10 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written German, the 446,287th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Achtjährig is a German adjective meaning “eight-year” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “das achte Lebensjahr beendet habend oder seit acht Jahren existierend”.

What does achtjährig mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    eight-year

  2. 2

    eight-year-old

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. das achte Lebensjahr beendet habend oder seit acht Jahren existierend 2. die Zeitspanne von acht Jahren umfassend

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 achtjährig

  • achtjähriger masculine nominative singular
  • achtjährige feminine nominative singular
  • achtjähriges neuter nominative singular
  • achtjährigen genitive masculine singular
  • achtjährigem dative masculine singular
  • der achtjährige definite includes-article masculine
  • die achtjährige definite feminine includes-article
  • das achtjährige definite includes-article neuter
  • die achtjährigen definite includes-article nominative
  • des achtjährigen definite genitive includes-article
  • der achtjährigen definite feminine genitive
  • dem achtjährigen dative definite includes-article
  • den achtjährigen dative definite includes-article
  • 8-jährig alternative

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce achtjährig?

  • /ˈaxtˌjɛːʁɪç/
  • /ˈaxtˌjeːʁɪç/
  • /ˈaxtˌjɛːʁɪk/

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is achtjährig in German?

achtjährig appears about once in every 54 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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