tendenziös
German, adjective/tɛndɛnˈt͡sjøːs/
tendenziös is spelled T-E-N-D-E-N-Z-I-Ö-S (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 60,441st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tendenziös is a German adjective meaning “tendentious; biased (representing facts in a partisan manner, often manipulatively so)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “einer Tendenz folgend”.
What does tendenziös mean in English?
adjective
- 1
tendentious; biased (representing facts in a partisan manner, often manipulatively so)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. einer Tendenz folgend 2. etwas bezweckend, beabsichtigend, voreingenommen
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 tendenziös
- tendenziöser masculine nominative singular
- am tendenziösesten superlative
- tendenziöse feminine nominative singular
- tendenziöses neuter nominative singular
- tendenziösen genitive masculine singular
- tendenziösem dative masculine singular
- der tendenziöse definite includes-article masculine
- die tendenziöse definite feminine includes-article
- das tendenziöse definite includes-article neuter
- die tendenziösen definite includes-article nominative
- des tendenziösen definite genitive includes-article
- der tendenziösen definite feminine genitive
- dem tendenziösen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tendenziös?
- /tɛndɛnˈt͡sjøːs/
- [ˌtɛndɛnˈt͡si̯øːs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tendenziös
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tendenziös in German?
tendenziös 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).