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quick

German, adjective/kvɪk/

quick is spelled Q-U-I-C-K (5 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written German, the 20,880th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quick is a German adjective meaning “lively” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “lebhaft, keck”.

What does quick mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    datedlively

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. lebhaft, keck

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 quick

  • quicker masculine nominative singular
  • am quicksten superlative
  • quicke feminine nominative singular
  • quickes neuter nominative singular
  • quicken genitive masculine singular
  • quickem dative masculine singular
  • der quicke definite includes-article masculine
  • die quicke definite feminine includes-article
  • das quicke definite includes-article neuter
  • die quicken definite includes-article nominative
  • des quicken definite genitive includes-article
  • der quicken definite feminine genitive
  • dem quicken dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce quick?

  • /kvɪk/
  • [kʋɪk]
  • [kvɪk]

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

How common is quick in German?

quick appears 2.5 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).

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