geständig
German, adjective/ɡəˈʃtɛndɪç/
geständig is spelled G-E-S-T-Ä-N-D-I-G (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 101,039th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Geständig is a German adjective meaning “confessing; self-confessed, self-acknowledged” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas Unrechtes einräumend/zugebend”.
What does geständig mean in English?
adjective
- 1
confessing; self-confessed, self-acknowledged
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. etwas Unrechtes einräumend/zugebend
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 geständig
- geständiger masculine nominative singular
- geständige feminine nominative singular
- geständiges neuter nominative singular
- geständigen genitive masculine singular
- geständigem dative masculine singular
- der geständige definite includes-article masculine
- die geständige definite feminine includes-article
- das geständige definite includes-article neuter
- die geständigen definite includes-article nominative
- des geständigen definite genitive includes-article
- der geständigen definite feminine genitive
- dem geständigen dative definite includes-article
- den geständigen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce geständig?
- /ɡəˈʃtɛndɪç/
- /ɡəˈʃtɛndɪk/
- [ɡəˈʃtɛndɪç]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is geständig in German?
geständig appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).