direkt
German, adjective/diˈʁɛkt/
direkt is spelled D-I-R-E-K-T (6 letters) and appears 219 times per million words in written German, the 395th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Direkt is a German adjective meaning “direct, straight, without deviation or interruption” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “in gerader Richtung, ohne Umwege, ohne Umschweife, ohne Verzögerung”.
What does direkt mean in English?
adjective
- 1
direct, straight, without deviation or interruption
direkte Demokratie
- 2
direct, candid, forthright (of a person, conversation)
adverb
- 1
directly
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. in gerader Richtung, ohne Umwege, ohne Umschweife, ohne Verzögerung
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 direkt
- direkter masculine nominative singular
- am direktesten superlative
- direkte feminine nominative singular
- direktes neuter nominative singular
- direkten genitive masculine singular
- direktem dative masculine singular
- der direkte definite includes-article masculine
- die direkte definite feminine includes-article
- das direkte definite includes-article neuter
- die direkten definite includes-article nominative
- des direkten definite genitive includes-article
- der direkten definite feminine genitive
- dem direkten dative definite includes-article
- direct obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce direkt?
- standard /diˈʁɛkt/
- /ˈdɪʁɛkt/
- [diˈʁɛkt]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to direkt
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is direkt in German?
direkt appears 219 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).