sittsam
German, adjective/ˈzɪtzaːm/
sittsam is spelled S-I-T-T-S-A-M (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written German, the 120,168th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sittsam is a German adjective meaning “demure, decent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “den guten Sitten entsprechend”.
What does sittsam mean in English?
adjective
- 1
dateddemure, decent
- 2
datedprudish
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. den guten Sitten entsprechend 2. Männern gegenüber zurückhaltend
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 sittsam
- sittsamer masculine nominative singular
- am sittsamsten superlative
- sittsame feminine nominative singular
- sittsames neuter nominative singular
- sittsamen genitive masculine singular
- sittsamem dative masculine singular
- der sittsame definite includes-article masculine
- die sittsame definite feminine includes-article
- das sittsame definite includes-article neuter
- die sittsamen definite includes-article nominative
- des sittsamen definite genitive includes-article
- der sittsamen definite feminine genitive
- dem sittsamen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sittsam?
- /ˈzɪtzaːm/
- [ˈzɪtzaːm]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sittsam
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sittsam in German?
sittsam appears about once in every 6 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).