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dauerhaft

German, adjective/ˈdaʊ̯ɐhaft/

dauerhaft is spelled D-A-U-E-R-H-A-F-T (9 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written German, the 4,267th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dauerhaft is a German adjective meaning “permanent, lasting, enduring, durable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “lange anhaltend; auf Dauer”.

What does dauerhaft mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    permanent, lasting, enduring, durable

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. lange anhaltend; auf Dauer

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 dauerhaft

  • dauerhafter masculine nominative singular
  • am dauerhaftesten superlative
  • dauerhafte feminine nominative singular
  • dauerhaftes neuter nominative singular
  • dauerhaften genitive masculine singular
  • dauerhaftem dative masculine singular
  • der dauerhafte definite includes-article masculine
  • die dauerhafte definite feminine includes-article
  • das dauerhafte definite includes-article neuter
  • die dauerhaften definite includes-article nominative
  • des dauerhaften definite genitive includes-article
  • der dauerhaften definite feminine genitive
  • dem dauerhaften dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce dauerhaft?

  • /ˈdaʊ̯ɐhaft/
  • [ˈdaʊ̯ɐhaft]

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

English words that translate to dauerhaft

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

How common is dauerhaft in German?

dauerhaft appears 18 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).

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