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heroisch

German, adjective/heˈʁoːɪʃ/

heroisch is spelled H-E-R-O-I-S-C-H (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 68,093rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Heroisch is a German adjective meaning “heroic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “heldenhaft”.

What does heroisch mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    heroic

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. heldenhaft

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 heroisch

  • heroischer masculine nominative singular
  • am heroischsten superlative
  • heroische feminine nominative singular
  • heroisches neuter nominative singular
  • heroischen genitive masculine singular
  • heroischem dative masculine singular
  • der heroische definite includes-article masculine
  • die heroische definite feminine includes-article
  • das heroische definite includes-article neuter
  • die heroischen definite includes-article nominative
  • des heroischen definite genitive includes-article
  • der heroischen definite feminine genitive
  • dem heroischen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce heroisch?

  • /heˈʁoːɪʃ/
  • [heˈʁoːɪʃ]

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

English words that translate to heroisch

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is heroisch in German?

heroisch appears about once in every 2 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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