mühsam
German, adjective/ˈmyːzaːm/
mühsam is spelled M-Ü-H-S-A-M (6 letters) and appears 6.6 times per million words in written German, the 9,876th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mühsam is a German adjective meaning “arduous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “mit viel Mühe verbunden, mit großer Anstrengung”.
What does mühsam mean in English?
adjective
- 1
arduous
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. mit viel Mühe verbunden, mit großer Anstrengung
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 mühsam
- mühsamer masculine nominative singular
- am mühsamsten superlative
- mühsame feminine nominative singular
- mühsames neuter nominative singular
- mühsamen genitive masculine singular
- mühsamem dative masculine singular
- der mühsame definite includes-article masculine
- die mühsame definite feminine includes-article
- das mühsame definite includes-article neuter
- die mühsamen definite includes-article nominative
- des mühsamen definite genitive includes-article
- der mühsamen definite feminine genitive
- dem mühsamen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mühsam?
- /ˈmyːzaːm/
- /ˈmyːzam/
- [ˈmyːzaːm]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mühsam
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mühsam in German?
mühsam appears 6.6 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).