Hartung
German, noun
Hartung is spelled H-A-R-T-U-N-G (7 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written German, the 29,978th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hartung is a German masculine noun meaning “January” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Härtung is a different word: “hardening”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Januar”.
What does Hartung mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineJanuary
Der Hartung ist der kälteste Monat.
noun
- 1
femininehardening
- 2
femininetempering
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Januar
noun: 1. das Hartmachen; Hartwerden
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 Hartung
- Härtungen plural
- Hartungs genitive
- Hartunge plural
- Hartungen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Hartung
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Hartung in German?
Hartung appears 1.5 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).