hartnäckig
German, adjective/ˈhaʁtˌnɛkɪç/
hartnäckig is spelled H-A-R-T-N-Ä-C-K-I-G (10 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written German, the 14,778th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hartnäckig is a German adjective meaning “obstinate, stubborn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “auf etwas eigensinnig, beharrlich, unnachgiebig bestehend”.
What does hartnäckig mean in English?
adjective
- 1
obstinate, stubborn
- 2
indelible
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. auf etwas eigensinnig, beharrlich, unnachgiebig bestehend
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 hartnäckig
- hartnäckiger masculine nominative singular
- am hartnäckigsten superlative
- hartnäckige feminine nominative singular
- hartnäckiges neuter nominative singular
- hartnäckigen genitive masculine singular
- hartnäckigem dative masculine singular
- der hartnäckige definite includes-article masculine
- die hartnäckige definite feminine includes-article
- das hartnäckige definite includes-article neuter
- die hartnäckigen definite includes-article nominative
- des hartnäckigen definite genitive includes-article
- der hartnäckigen definite feminine genitive
- dem hartnäckigen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hartnäckig?
- /ˈhaʁtˌnɛkɪç/
- /-ˌnɛkɪk/
- [ˈhaʁtˌnɛkɪç]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hartnäckig
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hartnäckig in German?
hartnäckig appears 3.9 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).