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hemdsärmelig

German, adjective/ˈhɛmt͡sˌʔɛʁməlɪç/

hemdsärmelig is spelled H-E-M-D-S-Ä-R-M-E-L-I-G (12 letters) and appears about once in every 31 million words in written German, the 326,119th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hemdsärmelig is a German adjective meaning “shirt-sleeved (wearing only a shirt)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “(nur) ein Hemd tragend (ohne weiteres Kleidungsstück für den Oberkörper wie Jacke oder Sakko)”.

What does hemdsärmelig mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    shirt-sleeved (wearing only a shirt)

  2. 2

    colloquialcasual

    eine hemdsärmelige Art

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. (nur) ein Hemd tragend (ohne weiteres Kleidungsstück für den Oberkörper wie Jacke oder Sakko) 2. betont locker, ohne Wert auf gesellschaftliche Formen zu legen

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 hemdsärmelig

  • hemdsärmeliger masculine nominative singular
  • hemdsärmelige feminine nominative singular
  • hemdsärmeliges neuter nominative singular
  • hemdsärmeligen genitive masculine singular
  • hemdsärmeligem dative masculine singular
  • der hemdsärmelige definite includes-article masculine
  • die hemdsärmelige definite feminine includes-article
  • das hemdsärmelige definite includes-article neuter
  • die hemdsärmeligen definite includes-article nominative
  • des hemdsärmeligen definite genitive includes-article
  • der hemdsärmeligen definite feminine genitive
  • dem hemdsärmeligen dative definite includes-article
  • den hemdsärmeligen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce hemdsärmelig?

  • /ˈhɛmt͡sˌʔɛʁməlɪç/
  • /-ˌʔɛʁməlɪk/
  • [ˈhɛmt͡sˌʔɛʁməlɪç]

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

How common is hemdsärmelig in German?

hemdsärmelig appears about once in every 31 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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