intensiv
German, adjective
intensiv is a German adjective meaning “intense” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Intensiv is a different word: “short for Intensivstation (“ICU, intensive care unit”)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “gründlich, eindringlich, kräftig auf eine bestimmte Sache gerichtet”.
What does intensiv mean in English?
adjective
- 1
intense
- 2
acute
- 3
intensive
noun
- 1
feminineinformalshort for Intensivstation (“ICU, intensive care unit”)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. gründlich, eindringlich, kräftig auf eine bestimmte Sache gerichtet 2. ausdruckskräftig und leuchtend 3. mit hohem Einsatz bestimmter Produktionsfaktoren
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 intensiv
- intensiver masculine nominative singular
- am intensivsten superlative
- intensive feminine nominative singular
- intensives neuter nominative singular
- intensiven genitive masculine singular
- intensivem dative masculine singular
- der intensive definite includes-article masculine
- die intensive definite feminine includes-article
- das intensive definite includes-article neuter
- die intensiven definite includes-article nominative
- des intensiven definite genitive includes-article
- der intensiven definite feminine genitive
- dem intensiven dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to intensiv
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is intensiv in German?
intensiv appears 21 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).