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feinkörnig

German, adjective/ˈfaɪ̯nˌkœʁnɪç/

feinkörnig is spelled F-E-I-N-K-Ö-R-N-I-G (10 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written German, the 211,221st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Feinkörnig is a German adjective meaning “finely ground” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “aus kleinen Körnern bestehend”.

What does feinkörnig mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    finely ground

  2. 2

    close-grained, fine-grained

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. aus kleinen Körnern bestehend 2. ein feines Korn aufweisend, sodass es weniger lichtempfindlich, aber kontrastreicher ist

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 feinkörnig

  • feinkörniger masculine nominative singular
  • am feinkörnigsten superlative
  • feinkörnige feminine nominative singular
  • feinkörniges neuter nominative singular
  • feinkörnigen genitive masculine singular
  • feinkörnigem dative masculine singular
  • der feinkörnige definite includes-article masculine
  • die feinkörnige definite feminine includes-article
  • das feinkörnige definite includes-article neuter
  • die feinkörnigen definite includes-article nominative
  • des feinkörnigen definite genitive includes-article
  • der feinkörnigen definite feminine genitive
  • dem feinkörnigen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce feinkörnig?

  • /ˈfaɪ̯nˌkœʁnɪç/
  • /-ˌkœʁnɪk/
  • [ˈfaɪ̯nˌkœʁnɪç]

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

How common is feinkörnig in German?

feinkörnig appears about once in every 14 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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