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kurrent

German, adjective/kʊˈʁɛnt/

kurrent is a German adjective meaning “cursive (having the letters joined together)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “in deutscher Schrift”.

What does kurrent mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    cursive (having the letters joined together)

  2. 2

    Austriawritten in old German handwriting (Deutsche Kurrentschrift)

  3. 3

    rarecurrent, present

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. in deutscher Schrift

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 kurrent

  • kurrenter masculine nominative singular
  • am kurrentesten superlative
  • kurrente feminine nominative singular
  • kurrentes neuter nominative singular
  • kurrenten genitive masculine singular
  • kurrentem dative masculine singular
  • der kurrente definite includes-article masculine
  • die kurrente definite feminine includes-article
  • das kurrente definite includes-article neuter
  • die kurrenten definite includes-article nominative
  • des kurrenten definite genitive includes-article
  • der kurrenten definite feminine genitive
  • dem kurrenten dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce kurrent?

  • /kʊˈʁɛnt/
  • [kʊˈʁɛnt]

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

How common is kurrent in German?

kurrent appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).