smart
German, adjective/smaːɐ̯t/
smart is spelled S-M-A-R-T (5 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written German, the 6,291st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Smart is a German adjective meaning “smart (exhibiting social ability or cleverness)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “unter Beachtung der eigenen Vorteile geschickt im Umgang mit Mitmenschen”.
What does smart mean in English?
adjective
- 1
smart (exhibiting social ability or cleverness)
- 2
smart (good-looking, well-dressed)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. unter Beachtung der eigenen Vorteile geschickt im Umgang mit Mitmenschen 2. elegant gekleidet 3. interaktiv und autonom
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 smart
- smarter masculine nominative singular
- am smartesten superlative
- smarte feminine nominative singular
- smartes neuter nominative singular
- smarten genitive masculine singular
- smartem dative masculine singular
- der smarte definite includes-article masculine
- die smarte definite feminine includes-article
- das smarte definite includes-article neuter
- die smarten definite includes-article nominative
- des smarten definite genitive includes-article
- der smarten definite feminine genitive
- dem smarten dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce smart?
- /smaːɐ̯t/
- /smaʁt/
- [smaːɐ̯t]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is smart in German?
smart appears 11 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).