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genuin

German, adjective/ɡenuˈʔiːn/

genuin is spelled G-E-N-U-I-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 55,211th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Genuin is a German adjective meaning “native” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “nicht durch andere Krankheiten hervorgerufen; angeboren”.

What does genuin mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    native

    eine genuine Fehlstellung

  2. 2

    genuine

adverb

  1. 1

    genuinely

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. nicht durch andere Krankheiten hervorgerufen; angeboren 2. ursprünglich, original, echt

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 genuin

  • genuiner masculine nominative singular
  • genuine feminine nominative singular
  • genuines neuter nominative singular
  • genuinen genitive masculine singular
  • genuinem dative masculine singular
  • der genuine definite includes-article masculine
  • die genuine definite feminine includes-article
  • das genuine definite includes-article neuter
  • die genuinen definite includes-article nominative
  • des genuinen definite genitive includes-article
  • der genuinen definite feminine genitive
  • dem genuinen dative definite includes-article
  • den genuinen dative definite includes-article
  • am genuinsten superlative

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

How do you pronounce genuin?

  • /ɡenuˈʔiːn/
  • [ɡenuˈiːn]
  • [ɡenuˈʔiːn]

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

English words that translate to genuin

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

How common is genuin in German?

genuin appears about once in every 2 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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