frikativ
German, adjective
frikativ is spelled F-R-I-K-A-T-I-V (8 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written German, the 289,823rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frikativ is a German adjective meaning “fricative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Frikativ is a different word: “fricative (consonant)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Bezeichnung für die Artikulation von Lauten, die durch Verengung des Artikulationskanals ein Reibegeräusch…”.
What does frikativ mean in English?
adjective
- 1
fricative
noun
- 1
masculinefricative (consonant)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Laut, der durch Reibung mittels Verengung des Artikulationskanals erzeugt wird. Eine besondere Untergruppe sind die so genannten Zischlaute (Sibilanten) wie [s] und [z].
adjective: 1. Bezeichnung für die Artikulation von Lauten, die durch Verengung des Artikulationskanals ein Reibegeräusch erhalten
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 frikativ
- frikativer masculine nominative singular
- frikative feminine nominative singular
- frikatives neuter nominative singular
- frikativen genitive masculine singular
- frikativem dative masculine singular
- der frikative definite includes-article masculine
- die frikative definite feminine includes-article
- das frikative definite includes-article neuter
- die frikativen definite includes-article nominative
- des frikativen definite genitive includes-article
- der frikativen definite feminine genitive
- dem frikativen dative definite includes-article
- den frikativen dative definite includes-article
- Frikative nominative plural
- Frikativs genitive singular
- Frikativen dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to frikativ
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is frikativ in German?
frikativ appears about once in every 25 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).