kontextsensitiv
German, adjective/ˈkɔntɛkstˌzɛnzitiːf/
kontextsensitiv is spelled K-O-N-T-E-X-T-S-E-N-S-I-T-I-V (15 letters) and appears about once in every 87 million words in written German, the 586,900th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kontextsensitiv is a German adjective meaning “context-sensitive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “den (sprachlichen, sachlichen, sozialen) Kontext beachtend oder berücksichtigend”.
What does kontextsensitiv mean in English?
adjective
- 1
context-sensitive
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. den (sprachlichen, sachlichen, sozialen) Kontext beachtend oder berücksichtigend 2. kontextsensitive Ersetzungsregel, kontextsensitive Regel, kontextsensitive Produktion: eine Ersetzungsregel einer Chomsky-Grammatik 3. kontextsensitive Grammatik: eine Chomsky-Grammatik, die nur kontextsensitive Ersetzungsregeln ([2]) enthält (darunter jedoch unter Umständen auch spezifischere, etwa kontextfreie). 4. kontextsensitive Sprache: eine Sprache, die von einer kontextfreien Grammatik ([3]) erzeugt wird (aber möglicherweise auch noch von solchen anderen Typs).
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 kontextsensitiv
- kontextsensitiver masculine nominative singular
- am kontextsensitivsten superlative
- kontextsensitive feminine nominative singular
- kontextsensitives neuter nominative singular
- kontextsensitiven genitive masculine singular
- kontextsensitivem dative masculine singular
- der kontextsensitive definite includes-article masculine
- die kontextsensitive definite feminine includes-article
- das kontextsensitive definite includes-article neuter
- die kontextsensitiven definite includes-article nominative
- des kontextsensitiven definite genitive includes-article
- der kontextsensitiven definite feminine genitive
- dem kontextsensitiven dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kontextsensitiv?
- /ˈkɔntɛkstˌzɛnzitiːf/
- [ˈkɔntɛkstzɛnziˌtiːf]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is kontextsensitiv in German?
kontextsensitiv appears about once in every 87 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).