dornig
German, adjective/ˈdɔʁnɪç/
dornig is spelled D-O-R-N-I-G (6 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 200,239th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dornig is a German adjective meaning “thorny” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Dornen besitzend”.
What does dornig mean in English?
adjective
- 1
thorny
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Dornen besitzend 2. Schwierigkeiten aufweisend
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 dornig
- dorniger masculine nominative singular
- am dornigsten superlative
- dornige feminine nominative singular
- dorniges neuter nominative singular
- dornigen genitive masculine singular
- dornigem dative masculine singular
- der dornige definite includes-article masculine
- die dornige definite feminine includes-article
- das dornige definite includes-article neuter
- die dornigen definite includes-article nominative
- des dornigen definite genitive includes-article
- der dornigen definite feminine genitive
- dem dornigen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dornig?
- /ˈdɔʁnɪç/
- /ˈdɔʁnɪk/
- [ˈdɔʁnɪç]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dornig
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dornig in German?
dornig appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).