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archaisch

German, adjective/arˈçaːɪʃ/

archaisch is spelled A-R-C-H-A-I-S-C-H (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 69,095th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Archaisch is a German adjective meaning “archaic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “von den frühen Anfängen; zur Frühzeit gehörend”.

What does archaisch mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    archaic

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. von den frühen Anfängen; zur Frühzeit gehörend 2. überholt, veraltet 3. der archaischen, vorklassischen Epoche (Archaik) angehörend

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 archaisch

  • archaischer masculine nominative singular
  • am archaischsten superlative
  • archaische feminine nominative singular
  • archaisches neuter nominative singular
  • archaischen genitive masculine singular
  • archaischem dative masculine singular
  • der archaische definite includes-article masculine
  • die archaische definite feminine includes-article
  • das archaische definite includes-article neuter
  • die archaischen definite includes-article nominative
  • des archaischen definite genitive includes-article
  • der archaischen definite feminine genitive
  • dem archaischen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce archaisch?

  • /arˈçaːɪʃ/
  • [ʔaʁˈçaː.ɪʃ]
  • [ʔa(ɐ̯)ˈçaː.ɪʃ]

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

English words that translate to archaisch

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

How common is archaisch in German?

archaisch 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).

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