sanft
German, adjective/zanft/
sanft is spelled S-A-N-F-T (5 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written German, the 6,912th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sanft is a German adjective meaning “gentle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “sehr ruhig; ohne Kraftaufwand; zart”.
What does sanft mean in English?
adjective
- 1
gentle
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. sehr ruhig; ohne Kraftaufwand; zart 2. weich, flexibel
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 sanft
- sanfter masculine nominative singular
- am sanftesten superlative
- sanfte feminine nominative singular
- sanftes neuter nominative singular
- sanften genitive masculine singular
- sanftem dative masculine singular
- der sanfte definite includes-article masculine
- die sanfte definite feminine includes-article
- das sanfte definite includes-article neuter
- die sanften definite includes-article nominative
- des sanften definite genitive includes-article
- der sanften definite feminine genitive
- dem sanften dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sanft?
- standard /zanft/
- [zaɱft]
- Austria /sɑnft/
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sanft
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sanft in German?
sanft appears 10 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).