kursiv
German, adjective/kʊʁˈziːf/
kursiv is spelled K-U-R-S-I-V (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 45,845th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kursiv is a German adjective meaning “italic (having inclined letters)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “schräg, meist nach rechts geneigt”.
What does kursiv mean in English?
adjective
- 1
italic (having inclined letters)
- 2
rarecursive (having joined letters)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. schräg, meist nach rechts geneigt
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 kursiv
- kursiver masculine nominative singular
- kursive feminine nominative singular
- kursives neuter nominative singular
- kursiven genitive masculine singular
- kursivem dative masculine singular
- der kursive definite includes-article masculine
- die kursive definite feminine includes-article
- das kursive definite includes-article neuter
- die kursiven definite includes-article nominative
- des kursiven definite genitive includes-article
- der kursiven definite feminine genitive
- dem kursiven dative definite includes-article
- den kursiven dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kursiv?
- /kʊʁˈziːf/
- [kʊʁˈziːf]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to kursiv
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kursiv in German?
kursiv appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).