diminutiv
German, adjective
diminutiv is spelled D-I-M-I-N-U-T-I-V (9 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 125,379th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Diminutiv is a German adjective meaning “diminutive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Diminutiv is a different word: “diminutive (a noun or word expressing smallness)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “verkleinernd; das Diminutiv betreffend”.
What does diminutiv mean in English?
adjective
- 1
diminutive
noun
- 1
neuterdiminutive (a noun or word expressing smallness)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. grammatische Verkleinerungsform
adjective: 1. verkleinernd; das Diminutiv betreffend
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 diminutiv
- Diminutivs genitive
- Diminutive plural
- Diminutiven dative definite plural
- Deminutiv alternative
- Deminutivum alternative
- Diminutivum alternative
- diminutiver masculine nominative singular
- diminutive feminine nominative singular
- diminutives neuter nominative singular
- diminutiven genitive masculine singular
- diminutivem dative masculine singular
- der diminutive definite includes-article masculine
- die diminutive definite feminine includes-article
- das diminutive definite includes-article neuter
- Dim. abbreviation
- Dimin. abbreviation
- deminutiv variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to diminutiv
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is diminutiv in German?
diminutiv appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).