schadhaft
German, adjective/ˈʃaːthaft/
schadhaft is spelled S-C-H-A-D-H-A-F-T (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 101,039th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schadhaft is a German adjective meaning “defective, damaged, faulty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine oder mehrere Beschädigungen aufweisend, nicht mehr im besten Zustand”.
What does schadhaft mean in English?
adjective
- 1
defective, damaged, faulty
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. eine oder mehrere Beschädigungen aufweisend, nicht mehr im besten Zustand
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 schadhaft
- schadhafter masculine nominative singular
- am schadhaftesten superlative
- schadhafte feminine nominative singular
- schadhaftes neuter nominative singular
- schadhaften genitive masculine singular
- schadhaftem dative masculine singular
- der schadhafte definite includes-article masculine
- die schadhafte definite feminine includes-article
- das schadhafte definite includes-article neuter
- die schadhaften definite includes-article nominative
- des schadhaften definite genitive includes-article
- der schadhaften definite feminine genitive
- dem schadhaften dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce schadhaft?
- /ˈʃaːthaft/
- [ˈʃaːthaft]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to schadhaft
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schadhaft in German?
schadhaft appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).