kontrafaktisch
German, adjective/ˌkɔntʁaˈfaktɪʃ/
kontrafaktisch is spelled K-O-N-T-R-A-F-A-K-T-I-S-C-H (14 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written German, the 330,389th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kontrafaktisch is a German adjective meaning “counterfactual” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “gegen das Gängige und Gewohnte gerichtet”.
What does kontrafaktisch mean in English?
adjective
- 1
counterfactual
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. gegen das Gängige und Gewohnte gerichtet
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 kontrafaktisch
- kontrafaktischer masculine nominative singular
- kontrafaktische feminine nominative singular
- kontrafaktisches neuter nominative singular
- kontrafaktischen genitive masculine singular
- kontrafaktischem dative masculine singular
- der kontrafaktische definite includes-article masculine
- die kontrafaktische definite feminine includes-article
- das kontrafaktische definite includes-article neuter
- die kontrafaktischen definite includes-article nominative
- des kontrafaktischen definite genitive includes-article
- der kontrafaktischen definite feminine genitive
- dem kontrafaktischen dative definite includes-article
- den kontrafaktischen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kontrafaktisch?
- /ˌkɔntʁaˈfaktɪʃ/
- [ˌkɔntʁaˈfaktɪʃ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to kontrafaktisch
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kontrafaktisch in German?
kontrafaktisch appears about once in every 32 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).