karg
German, adjective/kaʁk/
karg is spelled K-A-R-G (4 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written German, the 39,278th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Karg is a German adjective meaning “poor, scarce, not well equipped, not decorated (of a room)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “(sehr) knapp, gering, wenig”.
What does karg mean in English?
adjective
- 1
poor, scarce, not well equipped, not decorated (of a room)
- 2
barren, not lush, with little vegetation (of land)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. (sehr) knapp, gering, wenig 2. ohne Verschönerungen, sehr einfach 3. ertragsarm 4. mit dem, was man zu geben bereit ist, zurückhaltend
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 karg
- karger masculine nominative singular
- kärger comparative
- am kargsten superlative
- am kärgsten superlative
- karge feminine nominative singular
- karges neuter nominative singular
- kargen genitive masculine singular
- kargem dative masculine singular
- der karge definite includes-article masculine
- die karge definite feminine includes-article
- das karge definite includes-article neuter
- die kargen definite includes-article nominative
- des kargen definite genitive includes-article
- der kargen definite feminine genitive
- dem kargen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce karg?
- /kaʁk/
- [kaʁk]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to karg
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is karg in German?
karg appears 1.0 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).