tonal
German, adjective/toˈnaːl/
tonal is spelled T-O-N-A-L (5 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written German, the 138,538th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tonal is a German adjective meaning “tonal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “den Grundton beziehungsweise eine Tonika betreffend, zu ihr gehörend, auf sie bezogen”.
What does tonal mean in English?
adjective
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tonal
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. den Grundton beziehungsweise eine Tonika betreffend, zu ihr gehörend, auf sie bezogen
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 tonal
- tonaler masculine nominative singular
- am tonalsten superlative
- tonale feminine nominative singular
- tonales neuter nominative singular
- tonalen genitive masculine singular
- tonalem dative masculine singular
- der tonale definite includes-article masculine
- die tonale definite feminine includes-article
- das tonale definite includes-article neuter
- die tonalen definite includes-article nominative
- des tonalen definite genitive includes-article
- der tonalen definite feminine genitive
- dem tonalen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tonal?
- /toˈnaːl/
- [toˈnaːl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tonal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tonal in German?
tonal appears about once in every 7 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).