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tätlich

German, adjective/ˈtɛːtlɪç/

tätlich is spelled T-Ä-T-L-I-C-H (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 68,093rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tätlich is a German adjective meaning “violent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “körperliche Gewalt gegen Personen einsetzend”.

What does tätlich mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    violent

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

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. körperliche Gewalt gegen Personen einsetzend

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 tätlich

  • tätlicher masculine nominative singular
  • tätliche feminine nominative singular
  • tätliches neuter nominative singular
  • tätlichen genitive masculine singular
  • tätlichem dative masculine singular
  • der tätliche definite includes-article masculine
  • die tätliche definite feminine includes-article
  • das tätliche definite includes-article neuter
  • die tätlichen definite includes-article nominative
  • des tätlichen definite genitive includes-article
  • der tätlichen definite feminine genitive
  • dem tätlichen dative definite includes-article
  • den tätlichen dative definite includes-article

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

How do you pronounce tätlich?

  • /ˈtɛːtlɪç/
  • /ˈteːtlɪç/
  • [ˈtɛːtlɪç]

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

How common is tätlich in German?

tätlich appears about once in every 2 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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