hauptsächlich
German, adjective/haʊ̯ptˈzɛçlɪç/
hauptsächlich is spelled H-A-U-P-T-S-Ä-C-H-L-I-C-H (13 letters) and appears 49 times per million words in written German, the 1,735th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hauptsächlich is a German adjective meaning “main” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “den Kern einer Sache betreffend; eine feste Bedeutung im juristischem Gebrauch”.
What does hauptsächlich mean in English?
adjective
- 1
main
adverb
- 1
mainly, primarily
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. den Kern einer Sache betreffend; eine feste Bedeutung im juristischem Gebrauch 2. den vorwiegenden, wichtigsten Teil betreffend
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 hauptsächlich
- hauptsächlicher masculine nominative singular
- hauptsächliche feminine nominative singular
- hauptsächliches neuter nominative singular
- hauptsächlichen genitive masculine singular
- hauptsächlichem dative masculine singular
- der hauptsächliche definite includes-article masculine
- die hauptsächliche definite feminine includes-article
- das hauptsächliche definite includes-article neuter
- die hauptsächlichen definite includes-article nominative
- des hauptsächlichen definite genitive includes-article
- der hauptsächlichen definite feminine genitive
- dem hauptsächlichen dative definite includes-article
- den hauptsächlichen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hauptsächlich?
- /haʊ̯ptˈzɛçlɪç/
- [ˈhaʊ̯ptˌzɛçlɪç]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hauptsächlich
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hauptsächlich in German?
hauptsächlich appears 49 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).