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schattig

German, adjective/ˈʃatɪç/

schattig is spelled S-C-H-A-T-T-I-G (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 102,515th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schattig is a German adjective meaning “shady, shadowy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “im Schatten liegend”.

What does schattig mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    shady, shadowy

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. im Schatten liegend

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 schattig

  • schattiger masculine nominative singular
  • am schattigsten superlative
  • schattige feminine nominative singular
  • schattiges neuter nominative singular
  • schattigen genitive masculine singular
  • schattigem dative masculine singular
  • der schattige definite includes-article masculine
  • die schattige definite feminine includes-article
  • das schattige definite includes-article neuter
  • die schattigen definite includes-article nominative
  • des schattigen definite genitive includes-article
  • der schattigen definite feminine genitive
  • dem schattigen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce schattig?

  • /ˈʃatɪç/
  • /ˈʃatɪk/
  • [ˈʃatɪç]

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

English words that translate to schattig

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is schattig in German?

schattig 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).

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