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animalisch

German, adjective[aniˈmaːlɪʃ]

animalisch is spelled A-N-I-M-A-L-I-S-C-H (10 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 148,565th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Animalisch is a German adjective meaning “animal, brute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “nach Art der Tiere, von Tieren herkommend, tierisch”.

What does animalisch mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    animal, brute

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. nach Art der Tiere, von Tieren herkommend, tierisch 2. körperlich, sinnlich

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 animalisch

  • animalischer masculine nominative singular
  • am animalischsten superlative
  • animalische feminine nominative singular
  • animalisches neuter nominative singular
  • animalischen genitive masculine singular
  • animalischem dative masculine singular
  • der animalische definite includes-article masculine
  • die animalische definite feminine includes-article
  • das animalische definite includes-article neuter
  • die animalischen definite includes-article nominative
  • des animalischen definite genitive includes-article
  • der animalischen definite feminine genitive
  • dem animalischen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce animalisch?

  • [aniˈmaːlɪʃ]

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

English words that translate to animalisch

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is animalisch in German?

animalisch appears about once in every 8 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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