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kreativ

German, adjective/kreaˈtiːf/

kreativ is a German adjective meaning “creative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Neues schaffend, beziehungsweise die Möglichkeit zu haben, Neues zu schaffen”.

What does kreativ mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    creative

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Neues schaffend, beziehungsweise die Möglichkeit zu haben, Neues zu schaffen

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 kreativ

  • kreativer masculine nominative singular
  • am kreativsten superlative
  • kreative feminine nominative singular
  • kreatives neuter nominative singular
  • kreativen genitive masculine singular
  • kreativem dative masculine singular
  • der kreative definite includes-article masculine
  • die kreative definite feminine includes-article
  • das kreative definite includes-article neuter
  • die kreativen definite includes-article nominative
  • des kreativen definite genitive includes-article
  • der kreativen definite feminine genitive
  • dem kreativen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce kreativ?

  • /kreaˈtiːf/
  • [ˌkʁeaˈtiːf]

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

English words that translate to kreativ

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

How common is kreativ in German?

kreativ appears 11 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).