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hamburgisch

German, adjective[ˈhamˌbʊʁɡɪʃ]

hamburgisch is spelled H-A-M-B-U-R-G-I-S-C-H (11 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written German, the 297,534th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hamburgisch is a German adjective meaning “of Hamburg” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “zur norddeutschen Stadt Hamburg gehörig”.

What does hamburgisch mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    of Hamburg

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

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. in der norddeutschen Stadt Hamburg beheimatete Sprache; gemeint sein kann alles von einer norddeutschen Aussprache bis hin zur Verwendung plattdeutscher Wörter

adjective: 1. zur norddeutschen Stadt Hamburg gehörig

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 hamburgisch

  • hamburgischer masculine nominative singular
  • am hamburgischsten superlative
  • hamburgische feminine nominative singular
  • hamburgisches neuter nominative singular
  • hamburgischen genitive masculine singular
  • hamburgischem dative masculine singular
  • der hamburgische definite includes-article masculine
  • die hamburgische definite feminine includes-article
  • das hamburgische definite includes-article neuter
  • die hamburgischen definite includes-article nominative
  • des hamburgischen definite genitive includes-article
  • der hamburgischen definite feminine genitive
  • dem hamburgischen dative definite includes-article
  • Hamburgerisch variant
  • (das) Hamburgisch nominative singular
  • das Hamburgische nominative singular
  • (des) Hamburgisch genitive singular
  • (des) Hamburgischs genitive singular

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

How do you pronounce hamburgisch?

  • [ˈhamˌbʊʁɡɪʃ]
  • [ˈhambʊʁɡɪʃ]

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

How common is hamburgisch in German?

hamburgisch appears about once in every 26 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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