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arschkalt

German, adjective[aʁʃˈkalt]

arschkalt is spelled A-R-S-C-H-K-A-L-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 98,214th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arschkalt is a German adjective meaning “brass monkey cold, bitterly cold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “extrem kalt”.

What does arschkalt mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    vulgarbrass monkey cold, bitterly cold

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. extrem kalt

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 arschkalt

  • arschkalter masculine nominative singular
  • arschkalte feminine nominative singular
  • arschkaltes neuter nominative singular
  • arschkalten genitive masculine singular
  • arschkaltem dative masculine singular
  • der arschkalte definite includes-article masculine
  • die arschkalte definite feminine includes-article
  • das arschkalte definite includes-article neuter
  • die arschkalten definite includes-article nominative
  • des arschkalten definite genitive includes-article
  • der arschkalten definite feminine genitive
  • dem arschkalten dative definite includes-article
  • den arschkalten dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce arschkalt?

  • [aʁʃˈkalt]

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

English words that translate to arschkalt

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

How common is arschkalt in German?

arschkalt appears about once in every 4 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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