gönnerhaft
German, adjective[ˈɡœnɐhaft]
gönnerhaft is spelled G-Ö-N-N-E-R-H-A-F-T (10 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 113,526th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gönnerhaft is a German adjective meaning “condescending, patronizing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “in der Art eines Gönners, in herablassender Weise”.
What does gönnerhaft mean in English?
adjective
- 1
condescending, patronizing
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. in der Art eines Gönners, in herablassender Weise
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 gönnerhaft
- gönnerhafter masculine nominative singular
- am gönnerhaftesten superlative
- gönnerhafte feminine nominative singular
- gönnerhaftes neuter nominative singular
- gönnerhaften genitive masculine singular
- gönnerhaftem dative masculine singular
- der gönnerhafte definite includes-article masculine
- die gönnerhafte definite feminine includes-article
- das gönnerhafte definite includes-article neuter
- die gönnerhaften definite includes-article nominative
- des gönnerhaften definite genitive includes-article
- der gönnerhaften definite feminine genitive
- dem gönnerhaften dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gönnerhaft?
- [ˈɡœnɐhaft]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is gönnerhaft in German?
gönnerhaft appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).