adäquat
German, adjective/adɛˈkvaːt/
adäquat is spelled A-D-Ä-Q-U-A-T (7 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written German, the 26,348th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adäquat is a German adjective meaning “adequate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “den gestellten Bedingungen angemessen”.
What does adäquat mean in English?
adjective
- 1
adequate
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. den gestellten Bedingungen angemessen
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 adäquat
- adäquater masculine nominative singular
- am adäquatesten superlative
- adäquate feminine nominative singular
- adäquates neuter nominative singular
- adäquaten genitive masculine singular
- adäquatem dative masculine singular
- der adäquate definite includes-article masculine
- die adäquate definite feminine includes-article
- das adäquate definite includes-article neuter
- die adäquaten definite includes-article nominative
- des adäquaten definite genitive includes-article
- der adäquaten definite feminine genitive
- dem adäquaten dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adäquat?
- /adɛˈkvaːt/
- [ʔadɛˈkvaːtʰ]
- [adɛˈkvaːt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adäquat
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adäquat in German?
adäquat appears 1.8 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).