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emphatisch

German, adjective/ɛmˈfaːtɪʃ/

emphatisch is spelled E-M-P-H-A-T-I-S-C-H (10 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written German, the 144,446th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emphatisch is a German adjective meaning “emphatic (forceful in speech or writing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit Nachdruck”.

What does emphatisch mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    emphatic (forceful in speech or writing)

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. mit Nachdruck

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 emphatisch

  • emphatischer masculine nominative singular
  • am emphatischsten superlative
  • emphatische feminine nominative singular
  • emphatisches neuter nominative singular
  • emphatischen genitive masculine singular
  • emphatischem dative masculine singular
  • der emphatische definite includes-article masculine
  • die emphatische definite feminine includes-article
  • das emphatische definite includes-article neuter
  • die emphatischen definite includes-article nominative
  • des emphatischen definite genitive includes-article
  • der emphatischen definite feminine genitive
  • dem emphatischen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce emphatisch?

  • /ɛmˈfaːtɪʃ/
  • [ɛmˈfaːtɪʃ]

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

English words that translate to emphatisch

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

How common is emphatisch in German?

emphatisch appears about once in every 8 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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