ortskundig
German, adjective/ˈɔʁt͡sˌkʊndɪk/
ortskundig is spelled O-R-T-S-K-U-N-D-I-G (10 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written German, the 282,248th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ortskundig is a German adjective meaning “local, knowing one's way around (being familiar with navigating a locality)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich in einem Ort, in einer Gegend sehr gut auskennend, Kenntnisse über einen Ort besitzend”.
What does ortskundig mean in English?
adjective
- 1
local, knowing one's way around (being familiar with navigating a locality)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. sich in einem Ort, in einer Gegend sehr gut auskennend, Kenntnisse über einen Ort besitzend
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 ortskundig
- ortskundiger masculine nominative singular
- am ortskundigsten superlative
- ortskundige feminine nominative singular
- ortskundiges neuter nominative singular
- ortskundigen genitive masculine singular
- ortskundigem dative masculine singular
- der ortskundige definite includes-article masculine
- die ortskundige definite feminine includes-article
- das ortskundige definite includes-article neuter
- die ortskundigen definite includes-article nominative
- des ortskundigen definite genitive includes-article
- der ortskundigen definite feminine genitive
- dem ortskundigen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ortskundig?
- /ˈɔʁt͡sˌkʊndɪk/
- [ˈɔʁt͡sˌkʊndɪk]
- [ˈɔʁt͡sˌkʊndɪç]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ortskundig in German?
ortskundig appears about once in every 24 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).