sardonisch
German, adjective/zaʁˈdoːnɪʃ/
sardonisch is spelled S-A-R-D-O-N-I-S-C-H (10 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written German, the 476,489th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sardonisch is a German adjective meaning “sardonic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “boshaft, mit einem verzerrten Gesichtsausdruck”.
What does sardonisch mean in English?
adjective
- 1
sardonic
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. boshaft, mit einem verzerrten Gesichtsausdruck 2. krampfhaft; scheinbar höhnisches, hämisches, grimmiges Mundöffnen beziehungsweise Zähneblecken (zum Beispiel bei einer Strychninvergiftung und im Frühstadium der Tetanuskrankheit)
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 sardonisch
- sardonischer masculine nominative singular
- am sardonischsten superlative
- sardonische feminine nominative singular
- sardonisches neuter nominative singular
- sardonischen genitive masculine singular
- sardonischem dative masculine singular
- der sardonische definite includes-article masculine
- die sardonische definite feminine includes-article
- das sardonische definite includes-article neuter
- die sardonischen definite includes-article nominative
- des sardonischen definite genitive includes-article
- der sardonischen definite feminine genitive
- dem sardonischen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sardonisch?
- /zaʁˈdoːnɪʃ/
- [zaʁˈdoːnɪʃ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sardonisch
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sardonisch in German?
sardonisch appears about once in every 60 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).